On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 10:24:04AM -0700, Aaron Dalton wrote: > I thought this might be the best place to post the question. I am > running FreeBSD5.4-RELEASE. For the sake of argument, let's say I am > trying to get the port editors/fte running on my Windows box via an SSH > tunnel. I am running WindowsXP, cygwin's X11 server, and PUTTY. As far > as I can tell from all my Googling, this should actually be quite simple: > > - openssh is setup on FreeBSD with X11Forwarding=yes > - I start the cygwin X-server (XWin -ac -multiwindow) > - Putty is configured to forward X11 sessions > - I connect via Putty > - running '$ fte' from the FreeBSD command line should supposedly open > everything up now on my Windows box, but it does not. > > From what I understand, when I connect now via Putty the env variable > DISPLAY should be set. But it is not (which is the error fte gives me > when I try to run it). If I try to manually set the DISPLAY variable (I > tried localhost:0, localhost:0.0, ip:0, ip:0.0) it still doesn't work. > editors/fte is fully installed (with X11libs and all that) but I wonder > if there is more I need installed on the FreeBSD end to make things work. > > I really appreciate your time and any assistance you can render. > I'm new to FreeBSD, so I may be off base, but I use vncserver on my FreeBSD box when I need an X session. Then I just setup Putty to forward port 5900 to 127.0.0.0:5901, make an ssh connection to my FreeBSD server, run UltraVNC on my Windows box and connect to localhost.
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