Putty Automation with Direct Connection open a Black Blank screen

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Hello,

I am trying to connect to a sever using Putty, I have configured as below- It just open as aBlank screen, any faced the same issue, any resolution?

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Can you add the correct hard coded credentials (SSH Password and SSH Username) in the activity Properties and retry?
If it is working, that means the Orchestrator credentials needs to be re-adjusted.

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It still gives a blank screen

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Did you check if you satisfied all the prerequisites for the direct connection and restart the Studio machine?

  • Versions 2.4.0 to 2.6.0 of the Terminal activity package need the latest .NET 5.0 Desktop Runtime, in both x86 and x64 versions.
  • Versions 2.6.1 to 2.7.3 of the Terminal activity package need the latest .NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime, in both x86 and x64 versions.
  • Starting with version 2.8.0 of the Terminal activity package, the .NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime is no longer needed.
  • The Direct Connection provider requires the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable version installed on the Studio/Robot machine. Windows - Legacy projects require the 32-bit version, while the Windows projects require the 64-bit version. This applies to all versions starting with 2.0.1.
  • The Direct connection provider uses a native DLL library that is not signed by UiPath. The library is named ttermdotnet.dll . If you use this provider, you need to allow the loading and execution of this library.
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Are you trying to download EDI files off that Linux box?

You may be able to use SFTP for that. Try the UiPath SFTP/FluentFTP first; if that doesn’t work because of the special certificate configuration etc, try using WinSCP and SFTP.

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Hello @marian.platonov ,

I have checked the configuration, it looks like it satisfies the prerequisites -please check below

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I could not find ttermdotnet.dll in studio folder, how to do this

  • The Direct connection provider uses a native DLL library that is not signed by UiPath. The library is named ttermdotnet.dll . If you use this provider, you need to allow the loading and execution of this library.
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Hello @sudster,

I am trying to access the logs and view server archive of file uploads and downloads.

Process is to perform audit on the server files and check if we had received any files from client on a specific day.

They have asked us not to download any files from the server due to compliance issues.
so, we decided not to use SFTP.

Is there any better way to do it?

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I wouldn’t say better or worse, but all modern Windows versions have built-in support for OpenSSH. This means you can connect to a Linux machine from Windows using Powershell or CMD by running an SSH session. Maybe, give that a go before you battle it out with PuTTY.

Depending on how comfortable you are with Linux and the level of access you have on the server, you may be able to spin up a quick and dirty web API on the Linux box. Have a read here: Turning a Shell Script Into a Web API | by Costa Paraskevopoulos | Medium

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