redirecting X to windoze

synapse · 11-29-2004, 11:52 PM

Hi

Im in need of a little help with X. The problem is that im running PUTTY on a windows machine and using ssh to login to cli which is fine , but i cant figure out how to start x and redirect the output from the slack machine to the PUTTY program on windoze ..

mmm has anyone done this before? is it possible ?

Thanx

carboncopy · 11-30-2004, 12:07 AM

why don't you use VNC?

secesh · 11-30-2004, 12:15 AM

i've done it, but by using utils like Xwin32 *i think*... anyways, they want money. i suppose you could get something running with cygwin, or something... but my experience with x/cygwin was    s    l     o     w...

point is, you need a display (x server) to redirect to running on win

theYinYeti · 11-30-2004, 01:51 AM

XFree for cygwin can be used for XDMCP. I did it. So it should also be accessible by simply running xhost locally, and setting DISPLAY remotely.

Yves.

theonebeyond · 11-30-2004, 02:15 AM

You must install some X on your windows machine. Then you can use putty (activate X-Forwarding!!!!) to ssh your linux-machnie. Running a graphical programm, the programm itself is executed on Linux and the window is shown on your X in windows. there are some out there, but mostly not cheap. I think cygwin will do enough...

Greetings, Sascha