Please translate this terminal command to Windowsese for me

[Xisiqomelir]

On my own boxes this

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xisiqomelir@parsifal:~$ ssh -D 7777 -c blowfish -p 5432 locastor@xxx.xxx.xxx.69

Gives me an ssh tunnel via port 5432 encrypted with the blowfish cypher, bound to port 7777 on localhost, for easy proxying via QuickProxy and such on Firefox.

On Windows I guess there's this "putty" thing to provide equivalent functionality, but all the online guides I found are incoherent.

Can one of you kind people tell me which random checkboxes and radio buttons I fiddle with in the putty GUI that correspond to my quoted command? Thanks!

[rapidsquirrel]

The IP address and destination port are both under the sessions tab of Putty.

Username (in your case: locastor) goes under in the Connection tab, in the blank labeled Auto-login username.

To use Blowfish, you need to go to the SSH tab (which is a subtab of Connection) and move Blowfish up to the top of the list in the Encryptions options box.

Mmmm, and I can't find anything about forcing an outbound port and I've never needed to do that before. Maybe port forwarding(Connections->SSH->Tunnels->Port Forwarding) might work for you.

And if you want to keep the settings, after you enter all of your settings but before you connect, go to the Session tab. Enter a name into the blank field under the Saved Session label and hit save.

[Xisiqomelir]

Thank you sir.