"Kevin Keithan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using my computer ,Windows2k Pro with Putty installed, to login > to my Redhat 7.2 server. I'm using ssh and have X Forwarding > enabled. I want to startx and see it from my 2000 Pro machine. I > am having trouble doing so. I set the xhost + and export > DISPLAY=myclient:1.0 . If I try to run x by X -query myclient :1.0 > I get Xserver: unknown host: myclient:1.0 So I put X -query myclient > and it runs on the server but hangs with a grey screen and an X for > the mouse. What am I doing wrong here? Can anyone help me?
If I understand you correctly you want people from Win2k computers to be able to log into a unix/linux machine and have a graphical desktop displayed on their win2k box, right? Ssh alone can't do that, it allows you to start X windows applications (so-called X windows clients) on the server it's connected to while displaying them on *the X server the ssh client is already connected to*. (X server means the part of X windows which actually displays stuff on screen and handles keyboard/mouse input etc.; X clients are the applications running "under" it). So to get what you want you need an X server for the Win2k machines; there you have a number of choices: "Default choice" http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/ (based on the XFree86 code you're also running on native linux boxen, requires the cygwin libraries (posix "emulation" under Win32) AFAIK) There is a useful list of X11 Servers on http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/windows.html under "X-Servers" (about halfway down the page); no point in pasting it over. Hummingbird's eXceed (http://www.hummingbird.com/) did make a solid impression on me a few years ago; StarNet's XWin32 (http://www.starnet.com) was also quite usable back then. The free choices are quite usable as well, but I've yet to manage to use StarOffice in a free Win32 X11 server without crashing it :-( Once you have a local X Server running you can either use ssh to connect single applications; but in the setup you're describing I would rather use XDMCP. The latter has to be configured on the Linux machine you want to accept remote desktop connections, after configuring the X servers on the Win2k machines it looks like this: The user of the 2k box starts the X server and gets a graphical X11 login screen which more or less behaves as if he was sitting directly at a linux box with graphical login enabled; that seems closer to what you want. So long, Joe -- "I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor." -- Neal Stephenson, "In the beginning... was the command line" _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
