Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-23 Thread kmself
It doesn't have to support X, just port forwarding. The user will have to supply appropriate xhost and xauth authorization values. Better solution IMO would be VNC. Where is this other box, and if remote, why can't you just run terminal access to it? on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:40:15PM -0600,

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-23 Thread Steven Kurylo
At 01:56 AM 23/11/00, you wrote: It doesn't have to support X, just port forwarding. The user will have to supply appropriate xhost and xauth authorization values. Well Putty doesn't support that either :-) SSH port forwarding and X forwarding. Better solution IMO would be VNC. Where is

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-23 Thread Andrej Marjan
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:40:15PM -0600, Steven Kurylo wrote: Unless I am reading the putty wishlist wrong, putty doesn't support X in its current form http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html Tera term's ttssh plugin works, though:

Using putty for an X session

2000-11-22 Thread adam.edgar
Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to be able to use Putty to connect to my machine. I can bring up a standard SSH2 session but I am ignorant when it come to starting an X session remotely. How do I go about getting X on my machine at work? I know it has to do with

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-22 Thread Steven Kurylo
Unless I am reading the putty wishlist wrong, putty doesn't support X in its current form http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist.html Unix/X (need a local-xterm back end) At 02:08 PM 22/11/00, you wrote: Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to

Re: Using putty for an X session

2000-11-22 Thread Matthew Dalton
adam.edgar wrote: Unfortunately at work I must use a windows machine, but Id like to be able to use Putty to connect to my machine. I can bring up a standard SSH2 session but I am ignorant when it come to starting an X session remotely. How do I go about getting X on my machine at work? I