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This tip from our support staff explains how to install and run SecureCRT4.1 from a U
drive providing highly portable security for the roving network professional. An abbre
appeared in the J anuary 2004 newsletter. If you'd enjoy receiving tips like this every m

Runni ng SecureCRT from a USB Fl ash Memory Dri ve
USB flash memory drives are very handy portable storage media. Also known as Thumbdrives and p
into any computer's USB port and are small enough to fit on a keychain or in a pocket. These instruc
SecureCRT 4.1 or later.
To run SecureCRT from a USB drive, you create an installation for SecureCRT manually. This involv
flash drive, creating a license key file for your registration information, and setting up a shortcut to the
other minor modifications. The following instructions are generally applicable to removable USB drive
some changes to suit your particular needs and hardware.
Copy the SecureCRT installation folder to the USB drive (C: \ Pr ogr amFi l es\ Secur eCRT
directory of my USB device looks like this:
1.
11/ 03/ 2003 21: 27 <DI R> Secur eCRT
11/ 03/ 2003 21: 27 <DI R> Known Host s
11/ 03/ 2003 22: 04 206 Secur eCRT. bat
Copy your Config folder into the USB device's SecureCRT folder. The Config folder is usually
C: \ Document s and Set t i ngs\ %USERNAME%\ Appl i cat i on
Dat a\ VanDyke\ Secur eCRT\ Conf i g
The USB device directory structure should now show a \SecureCRT\Config folder.
2.
In Notepad or another text editor, create a text file named SecureCRT.lic containing your licen
file in the newly created SecureCRT folder as well. The format of the SecureCRT.lic file is as
3.
Name=<name f r omr egi st r at i on l et t er >
Company=<company name f r omr egi st r at i on l et t er >
Ser i al Number =03- xx- xxxxxx
Key=nnnnnn nnnnnn nnnnnn nnnnnn nnnnnn nnnnnn nnnnnn nnnnnn
I ssue Dat e=nn- nn- nnnn
Next you need to set up a desktop shortcut pointing to SecureCRT.exe or to a batch file. The
how the flash drive is treated by your version of Windows. If you know that the removable dev
assigned the same drive letter, you can just create a shortcut to the SecureCRT executable w
below). If you don't always know which drive letter the device will be given, you will need to c
VBScript would also work) to launch SecureCRT, since shortcuts can't use relative paths in th
In either case, the use of the /F flag is critical. Otherwise SecureCRT will try to create the Co
Data folder, which is not what you want.
To create a simple shortcut, use the /F option, and specify the path to the Config folder. For i
always be the location of your removable device, you would create a shortcut with the target:
G: \ Secur eCRT\ Secur eCRT. EXE / F G: \ Secur eCRT\ Conf i g
To start SecureCRT using a batch file, first create a text file that looks like this:
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@echo of f
REM * Secur eCRT l auncher
REM * Al l ows r el at i ve pat hs on my r emovabl e devi ce
SET SCRT=. \ Secur eCRT\ Secur eCRT. EXE
SET CONF=. \ Secur eCRT\ Conf i g
START %SCRT%/ F %CONF%
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The batch file can be saved either on the flash drive or on your hard disk. Then create a shor
to start SecureCRT.
If you use SSH2 for any connections, you need to edit SSH2.ini in the Config folder to point a
host key database. If you place the database at the top level of your device, the correspondin
S: " Host Key Dat abase Locat i on" =. . \ . . \ Known Host s\
5.
Finally, if you use public-key authentication with any of your sessions, you can place your pu
device as well. If you use password authentication this step is unnecessary.
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