From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 23:57:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8129B16A402 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:57:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anujhere@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FBB13C491 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:57:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anujhere@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f47so170505pye for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:57:28 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=Y+npvNu4PwsEtDI05XWrREWZL40cAwEYh7hRy3o2ohHL6BvCJ4BfwbKB0zMWNLeS4fL2bzB0gdSNhr6TjiFM8O7aqg0MyksBwtj3Hg1n/IpoWFSg1bQ+ds4Ak8OsiFpFtev+AGt/THlKDSaXoaCUSnvkMFkoLjPqRa33KzeV6RI= Received: by 10.35.58.8 with SMTP id l8mr1889396pyk.1171497448491; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?59.94.129.115? ( [59.94.129.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id x48sm1490183pyg.2007.02.14.15.57.26; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:57:27 -0800 (PST) From: Anuj Singh To: White Hat In-Reply-To: <20070214124747.54863.qmail@web34414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20070214124747.54863.qmail@web34414.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ToXWoNmgGj3Vp08m+fWG" Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:26:27 +0530 Message-Id: <1171497387.6264.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-7.fc6) Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: Viewing on remote PC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:57:29 -0000 --=-ToXWoNmgGj3Vp08m+fWG Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Why don't you try tight vnc for this(server running vnc and WinXpee running vnc client. http://www.tightvnc.com/ PuTTY (the Telnet and SSH client itself) * PSCP (an SCP client, i.e. command-line secure file copy) * PSFTP (an SFTP client, i.e. general file transfer sessions much like FTP) * PuTTYtel (a Telnet-only client) * Plink (a command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends) * Pageant (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink) * PuTTYgen (an RSA and DSA key generation utility).=20 =46rom my shell if I login threw=20 [user@myserver]$ ssh -X and after logging in=20 I can use different X based utilities of remote machine. [user@remote_machine] firefox & ^Opens firefox browser of remote machine. regards=20 anugunj "anuj" On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 04:47 -0800, White Hat wrote: > FreeBSD-6.2 >=20 > I have a FBSD computer that I need to access via ssh from a WinXP machine= running 'putty'. I am using ssh certificates for authorization. No problem= there. I can do anything I want when I access the FBSD machine in this man= ner, except run something like KDE or XFCE4. I thought I made all of the re= quired changes to the ssh_config and sshd_config as well as 'putty', but ev= idently not. >=20 > Situation: >=20 > I have 'startx' set to start 'xfce4' presently. If I type: 'startx' while= logged in via ssh, xfce4 will start on the FBSD machine just fine. However= , on the WinXP PC with 'putty', all I see are the start up messages on the = screen. The actual GUI, etc. never appears. This makes using the program im= possible from a remote location. >=20 > I am sure I am doing something really stupid here. Perhaps someone could = point me i the right direction. >=20 > Thanks! > =20 --=-ToXWoNmgGj3Vp08m+fWG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF06GrNRX6jCtlI2gRAurKAJoCrCxQ50FtO2CDguu59fUZKF7grACdEtyN 7/81CU2od2oAW9nAWyBLrsk= =VPJ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ToXWoNmgGj3Vp08m+fWG--