Currently, Im working on Big data and Hadoop. I was trying to connect and test with Hadoop server using putty instead of VM. very basic challenge I faced was copying from local to remote Hadoop server using putty.But there is no direct option to upload from putty GUI user interface. hence I stuck in the middle of copying files to Hadoop server. then after a long find, I got one simple solution to upload files using putty command line which is working absolutely fine. Please follow the below simple steps Download Putty : Download putty from http://www.putty.org/ website for windows. Install Putty in your windows OS Go to run and type cmd to open command prompt. Run the below command with parameters pscp [localpathfilename] [loginname]@[servernameIP]:[serverpath] you can check the copied file by login to the server using putty again.