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| Thread ID: 43270 | 2004-03-09 04:20:00 | SSH client for Windows that supports X forwarding | Chilling_Silently (228) | Press F1 |
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| 221203 | 2004-03-09 04:20:00 | Greetings, Im just wondering if there is such a client available... We dont have any Linux boxes here at work (Yet...) but there are times when I could really do with checking my emails via ssh. Ive done it at home between PC's, and I can successfully ssh into my PC from the Web, so Im assuming I just now need a client for Windows. Ive heard Cygwin mentioned a few times, but wouldnt have a clue if that's what I need? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 221204 | 2004-03-09 04:33:00 | ssh client for windows.... Ummm, Putty no honestly putty. |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 221205 | 2004-03-09 04:59:00 | Cygwin is a collection of unix/linux software ported to windows. The cygwin version of ssh supports everything the linux one supports including X forwarding (and tunneling of other protocols). But to actually use it you will need an X Server installed on the windows box. The only decent free one I know if is the port of XFree that is part of cygwin. It also has the advantage of working almost exactly like the *nix version. If installing the cygwin collection isn;t an option you could use PuTTY and another Xserver. There is a java based server called weirdX (IIRC) which is limited but may work. Then to run apps you start the Xserver, ssh into the host with X forwarding on, and run xterm or whatever. Its really quite neat once you get it working. I once had netscape mail & emacs running over dialup to a uni tru64 machine. Just. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 221206 | 2004-03-09 11:02:00 | > ssh client for windows.... > > Ummm, Putty > no honestly putty. This man speaketh the truth. PuTTY is great. CygWin is an entire Unix style environment for Windows, almost a psuedo VMWare style thing. |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 221207 | 2004-03-09 11:40:00 | At Tec we use XWin32 and SSH to connect to a linux computer so we can do programming in linux. I'd have to have a look what ssh client it is, but extremely easy to set up. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 221208 | 2004-03-09 11:48:00 | > This man speaketh the truth. PuTTY is great. Ive been using PuTTY for over a year. The latest release is nice because ssh is the default protocol. PuTTY doesnt do X forwarding, which (As mentioned in the Subject line) is what Im after..... bmason > Thanks man, I'll have a look into that tomorrow at work, there's no windows boxes here to play with ;-) Does anybody else have any ideas? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 221209 | 2004-03-10 00:31:00 | VNC. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 221210 | 2004-03-10 00:44:00 | Ah yeah...... Might be a better solution :-) Thanks Graham, I'll have a play with krdc later tonight :-) Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 221211 | 2004-03-10 01:53:00 | > PuTTY doesnt do X forwarding, which (As mentioned in > the Subject line) is what Im after..... Yes it does. Have a look under the tunnels section in the setup. If its not there try updating. |
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