Connecting to DigitalOcean droplet (managed via Forge) on Windows with Putty

Just go to your DigitalOcean account or Forge and copy the IP address of your droplet.

Download putty for windows here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Then the host is your droplet IP, the port is 22.

In the left side go to SSH and choose 2 only.

Thats all, should work.

After that just enter your username and password (created by forge or your own).

Thanks for the quick reply!

Unfortunately, when I do that, I get this error: "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)"

Any advice?

It looks like a problem with your ssh keys (probably). I founf this article which can help you to solve this: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-ssh-keys-with-putty-to-connect-to-a-vps

Hope it works.

I tried that tutorial yesterday, and then again just now, and after inputting the username I get an error that says "server refused our key". I am at a loss.

Sorry Zander, possibly we are missing something here, maybe it is due to a configuration made during the droplet configuration on Forge, may you want to contact the DigitalOcean support or forge (if they have).

Best wishes on it.

Did you add the keys to your Forge?

Assuming you have an SSH key pair, you need to assign your public key to your droplet from within Forge. After that, you should be able to connect via ssh using your private key.

Ran into the same issue, connecting with: [email protected] did the trick.

I keep getting "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available (server sent: publickey)" whether I put in my droplet IP or forge@IP. What am I missing?