Using X/KDE from putty
 

Well i did some googling about using X/KDE within putty on a win32 machine

basically i found that u had to install an Xserver on the winbox and so forth and then it would work...

well the tutorial i was reading was old and the software had been since updated under another name, so i didnt get far

can anyone here give me a hand please?0

you can pick an xserver like xdeep32 which is totally free, but this has nothign to do with puTTY. puTTY simply gives you ssh access from another machine, from which you can run any application you want, including X apps. You can also use cygwin to provide a local X server.

I don't know how to do it with putty, but if you wan to use KDE from a linux box on a windows box (something like citrix terminal server) try freenx . berlios . de

The packages for slackware can downloaded from www . slackware . com/~alien/slackbuilds/freenx/pkg/10.1

The client program for windows can downloaded from www . nomachine . com/download.php

ive installed xdeep but im not really seeing how i can login anywhere... i keep getting "no xdm enabled hosts found on the network... maybe im just lost on what im doing

What are you trying to do. Display a windows desktop on a Linux machine or display a linux desktop on a windows machine?
Putty is a ssh client utiltity used to connect to mostly SSH servers.

Brian1

I wanna be able to use my KDE desktop from my windowsXP machine over SSH

you wouldn't use an entire desktop normally, you would simply ssh to a linux box, change thge DISPLAY variable to point ti yoiur machine an then run an X application which would then appear on your screen. sounds like you want an xdmcp login, which is also possible but a little more advanced. get the simple sttuff working (and **understand** it) then move forwards from there.

again though you are*NOT* doing this "over" ssh at all.

why don't you share your KDE desktop with X11VNC and access it on windows with VNC

It sounds like raska'a suggestion is what you are actually attempting to achieve. VNC allows you to see and control the KDE desktop remotely (Seeing and interacting with your KDE desktop in a window under XP).

Hmmm another This is how I do it post....

On Windows:
Install cygwin/X (This will provide the cygwin port of X.Org)
In <where you installed cygwin>\usr\X11R6\bin\startxwin.bat
around line 146 should be a line to the effect of %RUN% XWin
add a -rootless -query <address of your linux box> to the end of it.

On the Linux box:
Find kdmrc (on Slackware it is in /opt/kde/share/kdm/ )
look for a section lable xdmcp, you'll need Enable=true
As root start or restart kdm

Now back to the windows box. Run startxwin.bat.. you should get the KDM chooser.
login as you would if you were sitting at you linux box.

I hate having the KDE desktop covering the windows destop so i stop it from starting
in the firstplace, todo this.. on the Linux box goto /opt/kde/share/autostart/ and rename
kdesktop.desktop to .kdesktop.desktop.old

The end result is being able to easily have you Xapps display on your windows machine.

in:

c:\cgywin\usr\x11r6\bin\

all i have is:

run.exe

oh wait... i forgot to select the x11r6 base package when i installed... ill be back :)

OK.. startxwin.bat gives me an error where i added those lines.. i added:

-rootless -query 192.168.0.103

ok installed x11vnc via the pkgmanager using the tgz available from linuxpackes.net, but now im kind of at a loss what todo... ive used the win32 version of REALvnc, but that was pretty straightforward... is there some straightforward documention on setting the server up and having it run automatically on boot?

~Brian