Pete Biggs wrote:
On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 14:45 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Is there some way to do this? I've got the current putty (actually, putty-cac), pageant, and plink in my user's Downlods directory - neither he nor I have admin authority on his laptop, and Desktop support's teleworking today - but I can't seem to find a way to configure xming to look there for putty.
Or is it start putty, *then* start xming?
No start xming in passive mode (I don't know xming so don't know how to do that - you just want to start the xserver and not have it start any applications on the remote machine).
Start putty with X11 forwarding turned on and connect.
You should now be able to start X programs.
The important thing is that the server needs to be started before initiating the connection so that a display can be assigned.
Thank you! That did it. He's happy.
Can I suggest an alternative though. I've started using MobaXterm recently and I'm quite impressed: X11 server, SSH/putty client built in, GL capable etc. Home use is free.
I can look at it, but this is what he knows, and he's too busy to try something else. Hell, he's just pushed me updating and rebooting his at-work CentOS workstation until next week, and I have a job to keep them going, not for my convenience. <G>
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