Displaying X windows applications on a Windows desktop

Setting the X11 display to show X applications under Win2k

Start up X-Win32 / Xming and an XDMCP / broadcast session. Make sure the server you are going to run the application from has permissions in the X-server (for Xming it's in the X0.hosts file)

Before you putty into the machine make sure you go to connection -> SSH -> X11 and set Enable X11 forwarding on.

Make sure the machine with the program on it (eg. /usr/games/tuxeyes) has xdm installed, and has open ports on the firewall (eg /etc/shorewall/rules:

ACCEPT fw loc tcp x11

ACCEPT fw loc udp x11

run the program :)

Alternatively in a terminal window ssh in using the -X or -Y options, eg

ssh -X user@ipofserver or ssh -Y user@ipofserver

If you want to run the entire desktop you can run xfce4-session (Assuming the server has an xfce desktop installed)

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Xming.exe: client 4 rejected from IP 192.168.1.215

Solution:

Edit: X0.hosts (c:\program files*86)\xming\ in the installation directory)

add the ip you want allow. my X0.hosts

“localhost

192.168.1.215″

Restart Xming.

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For the full desktop

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Alternatives to X-Win:

Xming

XWinLogon Win32 X Server

Cygwin/X

NB To do this in a linux desktop just

ssh -XC user@ip

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Depreciated and insecure (manually setting the export environment)!

Putty into the machine you're running stuff off:

export DISPLAY=YOUR IP:0