I am just confused with what X11 forwarding can do. suppose that I start Putty on my windows machine and connect to my linux server using ssh. then how can I use it? Does X11 forwarding can allow me to call X applications on the linux server so that they run on my windowns machine? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 2:46 AM Subject: Re: how to use X11 forwarding > On Thu, 22 May 2003, chenyabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I want to use xwin32 to connect my linux server from my windows > > workstation. but I do not want clear text transmitted over the > > network. it seems X11 forwarding can encrypt the data over such > > connections. anybody can tell me how to use it practically? > > The development version of Putty, and quite a few other SSH clients > for Windows, support X11 forwarding back to the Windows machine. > > Note that the Windows machine running XWin32 is called the "X server" > and the Linux machine is your "X client." The terminology can be > confusing. > > Ted > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
