On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Grosswiler Roger wrote: > > > > From what I remember x forwarding looks more complicated than it is. I > > just enabled it on the server, set up putty with just the tick box for x > > forwarding, connected and it works. DISPLAY is set for you, so no need > > to do anything else. Just start the x server on the client box if it's > > not already done. > > > > Tom > > Thanks Tom, i tried this too, but did not work at all. You started your > x-server with startx? didn't you had to open ports on your firewall if you > connected from the outside??
Putty runs on windows. Unless you have cygwin, startx runs on linux (and similar). You can't run putty, connect to your linux machine and then type startx; you have to have an X server on the machine you are sitting infront of (ie your windows machine). Although it is called a "server", the X server is more like a client in this circumstance. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
