putty as default connection app

It shows connection type for each of the hosts as Microsoft Remote Desktop. How to change it to use Putty?

You cannot change the connection type for a session, as far as I know
What is preventing you from creating a new session?

May I also strongly suggest you do not use PuTTY
If you start using the Windows Terminal (presuming you are on Windows) in combination with the now builtin ssh client on Windows, you will get a much more pleasant experience

What is preventing you from creating a new session?

@rolflobker
I have about 620 sessions that were imported as a CSV file... So it wont be an easy task to create new sessions for each.
How do I change the connection type to Windows Terminal? Right now, if I double-click on a session, it says connecting, and then expires.

This is the error message that I see when I click on a host, and the connection expires. Where does one update the protocol? I have confirmed that the port number is correct.

What is preventing you from creating a new session?



@rolflobker
I have about 620 sessions that were imported as a CSV file... So it wont be an easy task to create new sessions for each.
How do I change the connection type to Windows Terminal? Right now, if I double-click on a session, it says connecting, and then expires.

@roshan_simon

Import them again, with correct session type?
Write a script which iterates over each host entry?

What is the current session type? Is that type "Host" ?
For me when I add a Host type and open it, I get presented a list of templates to use (quick connect) like rdp, ssh, vnc, website. But even if that worked for you, I don't think that's what you'd really want.

If it were my, and I was forced to use Windows, I would add sessions of type "Windows Terminal" with "Run" command something like "ssh my_username@a.b.c.d" . Just because Windows Terminal is waaaay nicer than the built-in terminal (even if only for changing font size with Ctrl +/-) . But you'd want to also want to configure your local .ssh/config and would only use RDM to launch Windows Terminal with variable names like $hostname$.

For you, using the "SSH Terminal" session type would probably be easiest and smallest step for now.
Or, what you can do if you have "Host" entries, is add a Sub-Entry, set host and credentials to "inherited" and choose "SSH Terminal" as the session type for the sub-entry. That way you can attach different session types to a single "Host" entry.

Either way, it would always involve 620 changes (in your case) , which manually would likely be 1 minute and 20 mouse clicks for each of your 620 entries so you should definitely think about writing a script to iterate over each of your hosts from a CSV file. Devolutions provides and awesome collection of Powershell Cmdlets which can help you with that.

@rolflobker Thanks

I just exported the file again as rdm this time, and imported it into Remote Desktop Manager.

Hello Roshan,

Thank you for the update. I’m glad to hear that exporting the entries as an RDM file and importing them again resolved the issue.

Also, thank you Rolf for jumping in and helping with the recommendations.

I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved, but please let us know if you run into any other issues.