I’ve been using this combination on a daily basis for more than a year now, and I can’t stress enough how really useful it is. I use it both at home and at work, and everything is very easy and – most importantly – absolutely free.
Xming portable PuTTY. Xming- Portable PuTTY is the portable version of one of the most popular telnet and ssh clients. SSH and Telnet are two ways of logging into a multi-user computer from a remote computer over the network. Matlab, mathematics, etc) and it will display on your Mac. Install the Xming software. If you have not already done so, download putty.exe from the PuTTY site and install it. Run Xming on your PC to start the X server.
X11 forwarding with SSH
X11 Forwarding with ssh is a wonderful feature which allows you get windows of a remotely started applications shown on your own desktop. For Windows, there are lots of pretty good albeit expensive products like Citrix, GoGlobal and XWin32, which allow you access your remote Unix desktop sessions. But in reality, if you don’t need any sessions but only want to remotely start an application and get a window from it on your desktop, you won’t need any of these expensive products – the easiest will be to use X11 forwarding and Xming.
Xming
Xming is an X Windows port for Microsoft Windows. Essentially it’s an X-server which starts transparently on top of your MS Windows desktop. It allows you to redirect graphical output of applications you run on remote Unix servers and therefore see these applications windows on your MS Windows desktop.
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Xming is very simple and easy to use. All you have to do is download its distribution archive from the project’s page on SourceForge: XMing @ SourceForge.
After you install it, I recommend you have a quickstart panel shortcut created for it, and have your command line altered to something like this:
Configure SSHd for X11 forwarding
Now that you have Xming installed, start it and it’s time to take care of the ssh side of things. We have to alter the ssh daemon config file: /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Just ensure that it has the following:
If you already have similar parameters, don’t do anything. But if you had to change the config file, it’s time to restart ssh:
All that’s left now is to download the wonderful free Putty client, that is if you’re not using it yet. You can get it here:
Putty: a free telnet/ssh client.
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I won’t go into all the Putty configuration details, I’ll only mention that for X11 forwarding, you have to do the following: in the main configuration window of Putty (you get it when you start Putty), select Connection section, then SSH, then X11, and make sure you tick the Enable X11 Forwarding option.
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That’s it, you’re good to go! Good luck!