What was assumed is that an X server is running on the Windows box. You can use VNC and probably sidestep X forwarding (in this case, the remote program would run X locally on the Linux box and VNC would forward through ssh). But since this would not be X11 forwarding, it doesn't directly address the question. X is client/server. X applications have to be told where to send their output and where to read their input. If you log in on a local graphics console (or log in and then start a graphics console), the default should be the local X server. This makes everything work like a windows box. Turn on the machine, get a graphics login prompt, log in and get a desktop, start a graphics application and it creates a window on your desktop. But it isn't doing it the way windows does. Windows doesn't have any concept of a I/O server - it assumes a graphics console - unless you pay extra for some relocation package. I think Win2K server came with the ability to remote connect a desktop window. X always uses a server. It just doesn't always use a remote server. I have eXceed on my XP box. I use putty. I can log into my Linux servers with putty and start graphical programs like 'up2date' and they will pop up a window on my PC just like they do on the linux desktop. Putty redirects the X stuff through the ssh tunnel set up during the initial login. I am using X11 forwarding to encrypt everything between my X client and server. At home on my own net, its almost the same if I use X on my laptop or just hit the KVM switch and use the Linux console. But the encryption of X forwarding means I can use X remotely across the Internet if I want without giving away the farm security-wise. I open up port 22 on my firewall to the machine(s) I want to log into and I can take my XP laptop with my eXceed X server and DSA keys on the road and connect in to my home systems the same way from anywhere. Try to do that with a KVM switch. VNC is another way of doing something similar but I think it would be more complicated to tunnel. Should be still possible. X11 has the advantage of native support in Openssh. Hattie Rouge. > -----Original Message----- > From: psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:psyche-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Kindley > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 12:33 PM > To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: how to use X11 forwarding > > > On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 09:45, Markku Kolkka wrote: > > Viestissä Perjantai 23. Toukokuuta 2003 05:41, Chen Yabing > kirjoitti: > > > Does X11 forwarding can allow me to call X applications > on the linux > > > server so that they run on my windowns machine? > > > > The applications will run on the Linux machine with the > user interface > > appearing on the Windows machine, and the connection will > be encrypted by > > SSH. > > > > I don't believe that is accurate. Not with a simple ssh > connection from > the windows box to the linux box. The connection will be > encrypted with > ssh but the GUI from the linux machine won't appear on the windows > machine. You can run VNC server on the linux machine and the > VNC client > on windows and get the GUI though. > > Scott > > > -- > 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
