On Thursday 27 November 2003 05:50 pm, David E. Fox wrote: > Hello everyone, happy Thanksgiving.... > > I was reading up on interesting topics and noticed something that I > wanted to try, which is X tunneling/forwarding over a secure connection > using ssh and putty on Windows. > > I've used Putty a number of times with cuccess to run my linux computer > remotely. As I type I'm at my mother's house on a Windows machine with > a new Putty installed, and I found a low cost X server (Mi/X) free for > 15 day trial. I have the X server up and running but I can't get the > program running on my host Linux pc to display at the remote location. > > I realize that it has to do with setting the DISPLAY variable - should > it be set to my IP address? Or is the tunneling using another "display" of > my remote i.e. 198.144.206.157:1?
Well, if you are tunneling X, it would be display 0, not 1. You would be much better off to use TightVNC since it supports compression and also has a freely available windows client that you can run either by tunneling through SSH or even without doing so. Since TightVNC is built into Mandrake already, you only need to install the server and create an id and then you are ready to connect. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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