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Currently, I use PuTTY for SSHing into my linux server and Cygwin for local development when working on my Windows machine. Sadly, the terminal emulator that comes with Cygwin doesn't approach the quality of the excellent terminal emulator that comes with PuTTY. And it occurs to me that there really shouldn't be any conceptual difference between connecting PuTTY to a remote server over SSH and using PuTTY locally as a Windows shell to interface with the Cygwin system... but I haven't been able to figure out how to do this for the life of me. Is it possible to use PuTTY this way? If so, how?
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PuTTY is a free, open source, terminal emulator, serial console, and network file transfer application that works with on both Windows and Linux host computers. To use PuTTY, perform the following steps: Download and install PuTTY.
Downloading and Installing PuTTYGo to your Downloads folder and double-click the UM-PuTTY.exe file (or you can open it using your web browser, if your web browser offers that option). You will get a User Account Control dialog box. Click “Yes”.
The open source and free serial terminal programs like Tera Term and PuTTY can also be used as a replacement for HyperTerminal in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
Take a look at PuTTyCyg.
Also I like to use MinTTY available through the Cygwin installer...
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