# Access?

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [February 4, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344 "2009-02-04T17:49:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![spoggles](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/spoggles/32/679_2.png) [@spoggles](https://community.asterisk.org/u/spoggles)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344/1 "2009-02-04T17:49:22Z")

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Hello, first of all, I just want to say thanks for reading my post.

I just started an internship at a company that runs Asterisk for their phone system and I am a novice to this system. I am reading Asterisk, the Future of Telephony and I am finding out a lot of information. However, I just want to know how to access the system. Can I do this from my Windows box(only started yesterday) or do I need to install a version of Linux in order to access it?

❓

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**Author:** ![davevg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@davevg](https://community.asterisk.org/u/davevg)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344/2 "2009-02-04T18:33:47Z")

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From windows, you can use a free program called Putty to secure shell into the linux server running asterisk. Here is the link:  
[chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta … nload.html](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html)

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**Author:** ![spoggles](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/spoggles/32/679_2.png) [@spoggles](https://community.asterisk.org/u/spoggles)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344/3 "2009-02-04T19:32:40Z")

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Thank you for the answer, I searched around trying to find something as straightforward as that.

My other question now is, if I installed Debian Linux on this Windows box, how would I access asterisk?

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**Author:** ![bwilks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@bwilks](https://community.asterisk.org/u/bwilks)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344/4 "2009-02-04T19:44:51Z")

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Hi,

From Linux to the asterisk box you could use ssh.

# ssh --help

usage: ssh [-1246AaCfghkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind\_address] [-c cipher\_spec]  
[-D port] [-e escape\_char] [-F configfile] [-i identity\_file]  
[-L port:host] [-l login\_name] [-m mac\_spec] [-o option]  
[-p port] [-R port:host] [-S ctl] [user@]hostname [command]

eg.

#ssh 192.168.0.10

Brett

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**Author:** ![spoggles](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/spoggles/32/679_2.png) [@spoggles](https://community.asterisk.org/u/spoggles)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344/5 "2009-02-04T19:56:05Z")

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It doesn’t get any clearer than that. Thanks guys(or gals).

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**Author:** ![chris.mylonas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@chris.mylonas](https://community.asterisk.org/u/chris.mylonas)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/access/25344/6 "2009-02-04T22:46:59Z")

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Download a Virtual Machine program.

Sun’s VirtualBox is pretty good.

Install linux on that for starters seeing as you are new to linux… Don’t be afraid of breaking anything. It’s only a virtual machine. The more you break the more you learn.