I won’t go into all the Putty configuration details, I’ll only mention that for X11 forwarding, you have to do the following: in the main configuration window of Putty (you get it when you start Putty), select Connection section, then SSH, then X11, and make sure you tick the Enable X11 Forwarding option. But if you had to change the config file, it’s time to restart ssh: solaris# svcadm restart svc:/network/sshĪll that’s left now is to download the wonderful free Putty client, that is if you’re not using it yet. If you already have similar parameters, don’t do anything. See AIX X11: SSH X11 Forwarding does not work if su user SUPPORT If you require more assistance, use the following step-by-step instructions to contact IBM to open a case for software with an active and valid support contract. Just ensure that it has the following: # X11 tunneling options We have to alter the ssh daemon config file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Now that you have Xming installed, start it and it’s time to take care of the ssh side of things. All you have to do is download its distribution archive from the project’s page on SourceForge: XMing SourceForge.Īfter you install it, I recommend you have a quickstart panel shortcut created for it, and have your command line altered to something like this: 'C:Program FilesXmingXming.exe' :0 -clipboard -multiwindow Configure SSHd for X11 forwarding It allows you to redirect graphical output of applications you run on remote Unix servers and therefore see these applications windows on your MS Windows desktop. Essentially it’s an X-server which starts transparently on top of your MS Windows desktop. see our tutorial tutorial on putty if you havent used putty before. Xming is an X Windows port for Microsoft Windows. SSH port forwarding for the use of GUI applications is allowed, but not for computational work unless special arrangements are made prior to the work being run. This video will show you how to use PuTTY and Xming to get GUI applications running on the linux platform to display on your Microsoft desktop. But in reality, if you don’t need any sessions but only want to remotely start an application and get a window from it on your desktop, you won’t need any of these expensive products – the easiest will be to use X11 forwarding and Xming. For Windows, there are lots of pretty good albeit expensive products like Citrix, GoGlobal and XWin32, which allow you access your remote Unix desktop sessions.

X11 Forwarding with ssh is a wonderful feature which allows you get windows of a remotely started applications shown on your own desktop. I use it both at home and at work, and everything is very easy and – most importantly – absolutely free. I’ve been using this combination on a daily basis for more than a year now, and I can’t stress enough how really useful it is.

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