Dennis Bagley wrote:
I have managed to configure my router and firewalls to allow me to ssh
into my
office PC from outside the office. I get a nice terminal window that
allows me
to do most of the command line things you'd expect. Unfortunately I
also need to
be able to run X Windows to access certain things that require a GUI.
So far I have not been able to figure out how to do that on a M$ box.
I can run PUTTY and get in just fine but I have not been able to figure
out how
to run X. And yes I did enable X11 Forwarding inside of PUTTY. But I
seem to still
be missing something.
When I try running startx I get message of "User not authorized" which
doesn't make sense.
even xterm gives me message of Can't open display.
I've tried resetting the DISPLAY variable but then the cursor just sits
blinking at me.
Would someone please help point me in the right direction?
I'm not quite certain what you are trying to do. Are you attempting to
execute an X-windows application on a remote Linux/UNIX system and have
that application use your local Windows system for a display? In order
to do that, you will need to run an X-server on your Windows system.
There are a few options for this out there, at least one of which is
open source. (You should be able to search for Windows X-server)
Netmanage and Xage used to sell a few of those back in the day as well.
After starting the X-server on your windows box, you could be able to
direct X-sessions to it and use ssh-X11 forwarding, assuming putty
supports that.
I may be completely misunderstanding what you are attempting to do
though... so if you can add some detail about the OS's and the nature in
which you want to use each, that could possibly help.
-Brian
Thanks
Dennis
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