Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:35:37 -0400 From: "Maxim Khitrov" <mkhitrov@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Timothy McGee <tmcgee@c2cmain.com> Subject: Re: Gnome & FreeBSD from putty Message-ID: <26ddd1750709230935i72184555qc6aaefa77e07ff04@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200709231613.01830.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <200709231331.l8NDVQaS030595@sonic.gv.net> <200709231613.01830.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On 9/23/07, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:35:00 Timothy McGee wrote: > > > Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best > > way to test for the displays setup, etc? > > > > I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios & equipment that > > require a web interface. My first attempt simply so display not configured > > and am really rusy on my unix. FreeBSD & I'm very rusty. > > If all you need is access to web interfaces on localhost of the remote > machine, setup a portforward and access it with your local browser. Putty > being a windows program, you probably won't get remote X to work anyway. Not true. Install Cygwin/X on your local machine (http://x.cygwin.com/), configure PuTTY to forward X11 packets, login to the server and run firefox. Depending on your exact configuration, you may need to tinker with the settings a bit. Usually, however, it works with no additional effort. - Max
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