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Exporting/Saving Putty/SecureCRT/SecureFX sessions on Windows!!

This is my first stint with blogging and I thought why not just start with sharing some useful information/tricks  that can save you some time.

To begin with , here are couple of tips that could save you some time.

Actually, I had once this problem where I have to take backup and move my work data to a new laptop and as we normally do , I also put my data on some external drive and copied it to the new box. During all this exercise I realized that by this I can only back up the data, what about the work I am doing..my configurations and installations...? What the heck...I need to spend lot of time to redo all that...crap.

I was using Putty, SecureCRT and SecureFX to log on to client side boxes and to work upon. And all three had at least 30 saved sessions having IP/user/pwd information, reconfiguring those sessions would be a daunting tasks. I did some research "well by that I meant googling also..:)" and here is how a little information can help you..

If you are using Putty on windows...
Putty actually does not have any config or ini file , it writes all the user created sessions in windows registry. You can find the sessions saved in putty at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham\PuTTY\Sessions location. That's it...we are almost done. Just export this key and save it to some location or external drive if you plan to move to some different windows box. Last thing you need to do is import this key to any other windows system where putty is running.

If you are using SecureFx/SecureCRT on Windows...
SecureCRT saves the user sessions information under windows user home directory. \AppData\Roaming\Van Dyke Technologies\SecureCRT\Config\sessions. You just need to copy the sessions folder and save it to some location. Just as a word of caution..., with Windows 7, Microsoft has changed the users home directory to C:\Users\. The same is c:\documents and settings\ in WindowsXP and prior versions.
I guess you know what is coming next..I need not to explain how to copy the sessions folder to the same location on any other windows box where you want to setup secureCRT/SecureFX and yes...you do not want to redo all the session creations..:)

Please leave you comments..how did you find it? and remember.. this is my first blog..:)

Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 27, 2013 at 11:02 PM

    It was quite informative.
    I couldn't find the Putty sessions in the registry, so I made all the 27 sessions by myself. The bottom line is that there is no way you can transfer your sessions from putty to SecureCRT. VanDyke is working on some method as I had some email exchanges with their support group as I am the prime for my company on this software and I need to know the A-Z of this software by heart.
    Also, I had confusion in finding the SecureCRt sessions, before realizing that I had modified the location of the sessions to a more appropriate and reachable destination as My Documents. I am in the testing phase of this software so I need regular access to the MD5 files and the session .ini files.
    The post, in all, was quite enthusiastic and informative.
    Way to go Nilesh!

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