Show hostname from WinSCP connection as Putty window title

Hi

Our servers have cryptic hostnames and friendly aliases. It would be nice if the hostname entered in WinSCP (in our case the friendly alias) would become the window title in Putty. Currently it is the cryptic hostname (configured hostname of server I guess).

Stephan

Thanks for your post.

This request is being tracked already:
https://winscp.net/tracker/1482

Is this work? I'm figuring it out how that feature works.

danilosimei wrote:

Is this work? I'm figuring it out how that feature works.

Yes it does work. It just works, nothing needs to be configured for it.

Hi Martin -
Thanks for the answer! I'm afraid it is not working as expected.

Indeep it keeps the name setted up in the title, but after loggin it gets the hostname of the server.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding something.....

So it works, right? It's your server that's changing the title post-login. If you do not want that, you have to configure the PuTTY to ignore the server-side title change.
See https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-features-retitle

I mean, is it possible to WinSCP override that title somehow?

I know I can set up it in PuTTy but I did not find any way to WinSCP load this configuration from PuTTy.

Btw, thanks for your attention.

Set NoRemoteWinTitle=1 in "PuTTY terminal settings":
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/ui_login_environment#putty