+1 Mobaxterm, X11 and SFTP support out of the box, also you get a nice bash terminal with it and some extra cygwin based goodies. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J Martin Rushton" <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 7 February, 2018 23:15:50 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: configuring xming to know putty's not in a std. location > On 07/02/18 22:58, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Pete Biggs wrote: >>> On Wed, 2018-02-07 at 14:45 -0500, m.roth at 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> >> >> mark >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > I'd second Moba as a solution to contacting a Linux server from a Win > box. https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ states that "You can download and > use MobaXterm Home Edition for free. If you want to use it inside your > company, you should consider subscribing to MobaXterm Professional > Edition: this will give you access to much more features, professional > support and "Customizer" software." The keywords here are "should" and > "consider". > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos