Re: How to make PuTTY/Xterm work over VPN connecting to a linux server

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:33:13 GMT

Prakash Nauduri <Prakash.Nauduri@oracle.com> wrote:

> I have a linux (redhat AS 2.1) server at work. I would like to have an
> xterm session (PuTTY) over VPN from home to the linux server. Is this
> possible with PuTTY?. I tried using SSH, RLOGIN, TELNET for this with
> no success

Putty is not X windows.

You can use putty to tunnel X traffic, but you must still have an X
server on your home machine to view the clients.

cygwin with Xfree86 is available, plus there are the commercial packages
like hummingbird eXceed. 

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
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