Hi

How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?

I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client

Tim

Timothy Dutton wrote:

> Hi
>
> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>
> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client

vnc. And you can use putty to set up a tunnel.

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jjg's fingers wander over the keyboard and thus produced:

> Timothy Dutton wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>>
>> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client
>
> vnc. And you can use putty to set up a tunnel.
Or....
You could install a copy of cygwin on your Windows box and on your linux
box export your DISPLAY environment to the Windows Box (running
cygwin's X-Windowing ontop of M$ Windows).

cygwin gives you a Unix/Linux like environment (and applications) on
your Windows Box.

Just another way to do things...
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humjohn AT aerosurf DOT net

On 2005-10-23, Timothy Dutton <tim.dutton@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>
> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client
>
> Tim
>
I used tightVNC. I installed VNC server onto slack. Set it up, and ran it.
I also had tightVNC viewer installed on my windows laptop. You need VNCviewer
to connect to the VNCserver on Slack. I just grabbed the tightvncserver rpm
here http://tightvnc.org/download.html and ran rpm2tgz and installed it.


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Best Regards,

Mike Reynolds

Timothy Dutton <tim.dutton@blueyonder.co.uk> napisal nam:

> Hi
>
> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>
> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client
>
> Tim

export DISPLAY=IP:0.0

Software like Hummingbird Connectivity 10 on your windows PC (or a freeware
cygwin?)

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 20:43:59 +0200, "Krzysiek" <none@none.nieto.pl> wrote:

>Timothy Dutton <tim.dutton@blueyonder.co.uk> napisal nam:
>
>> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>>
>> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client
>
>export DISPLAY=IP:0.0
>
>Software like Hummingbird Connectivity 10 on your windows PC (or a freeware
>cygwin?)

or X-Deep/32 http://www.pexus.com/ freeware

Grant.

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:48:27 +0000, Timothy Dutton wrote:

> Hi
>
> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>
> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client
>
> Tim

Here's my take on the advice offered so far, all of which will work: VNC
is a resource hog - it works by replicating the desktop rather than
drawing items like X; Hummingbird is very expensive; cygwin is not really
a good choice since it's basically running Linux in Windows and you don't
need that.

My advice - go to Kenton Lee's X/Motif page. There you will find a list of
X servers that will run from MS. These will range from fast to slow; free
to cheap to expensive. I've found that Xmanager has a very good product
with a free evaluation copy which never seems to time out. Try that and
some of the others too.

On 2005-10-23, Timothy Dutton <tim.dutton@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>
> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client

There is X11 available for Microsoft Windows. A cheap way is to
install Cygwin on the Windows PC. This gives you an environment
on the PC that is as close to linux as Windows allows, including
an X server, ssh, and so on. You can start X11 on the Windows
PC and ssh over to your linux box. Visit http://www.cygwin.com.
X11 over Windows is a little slow.

--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:32:46 -0600, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:

>My advice - go to Kenton Lee's X/Motif page. There you will find a list of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--> google first answer
>X servers that will run from MS
Great resource, thanks

Grant.

Timothy Dutton wrote:
> Hi
>
> How can I access X windows on my linux box from my windows pc?
>
> I am currently using the program putty as a ssh client
>
> Tim
>
>
You might also want to take a look at NoMachine NX -
http://www.nomachine.com/ . This tunnels, or rather proxies, the X
protocol over a ssh connection, using compression and smart caching to
let you have a good X Window experience even over low-latency lines.

The client side is fully open source (Windows, Linux, Mac clients
available) while the server component is a commercial offering.
But.... there exists FreeNX at http://freenx.berlios.de/ which
basically is the open source implementation of the NX Server.
Slackware packages available at
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/freenx/

Knoppix and the LTSP come with NX/FreeNX for example.

Eric