Hi all,

I have SuSE 9.0 running openSSH. At my Windows PC, I am running Cygwin/X and PuTTY.

I want to get into the GUI login screen over ssh. Anyone done that before?

With PuTTY, I have successfully login with ssh. Also with Cygwin/X running, I can start X-applications from within PuTTY w/ X11Forwarding enabled. But I want to use a WindowManager on the Linux machine.

I have tried to setup Cygwin/X to use XDMCP. All I got was a local Xwindow with nothing in it. I assume didn't get a XDMCP respond back. I also am thinking, if I start the XDMCP from Cygwin/X, I am not going thru PuTTY, that means it will not be over ssh.

So how can I do it? I assume I can do "startx" from within PuTTY, but that doesn't work either. I get this error:

linux:/tmp # startx
_XSERVTrans
SocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running

Fatal server error:
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running