On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 12:51, John Noll wrote: > Sorry for the confusion. All I want to do is connect to my linux box > from my windows 2000 laptop remotely.
All you need then is the RealVNC client for Windows (see my last post). > I would prefer a GUI environment > as apposed to the ssh command line solution. I heard you can open a gui > interface through ssh, but I can't get that working. This is another alternative. To tunnel X through an ssh session, you still need to have an X server running on the machine you want to display it on (your client machine that you're connecting from). cygwin has this capability. I don't have much experience with cygwin, but I believe you just need to start X from cygin, then use `xauth +hostname` to allow your linux box to display its X content on your cygwin X server. Then specify `ssh -X hostname` to ssh to the remote machine. > I really just want the most secure gui-type remote > connection available. I'm not sure how secure VNC is. > I just want to be able to connect to my home > machine while I'm away. The laptop I am using was provided by my work, > and they don't want me installing a bunch of my own applications. You'll need to install something--cygwin or RealVNC--to do something like this. There aren't any native Windows programs that will do it. > > I really appreciate your help. Any additional advice would be greatly > appreciated. > > thanks, > > john
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