Hi

I have a Fedora Core 6 workstation with OpenSSH installed. I can login
to it with both with windows- and linux-boxes. My problem is when I try
to use Putty with X11-forward. There is no problem when logging in
remotely from another linux-box, and I can start all GUI-apps. But when
trying to do the same with putty from a windows-box(with X11-forward
turned on), I only get this error:

$ xclock
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).

Are there anyone who knows if there are anys way to fix this?

In article <1164121985.756553.178680@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
luser32 wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have a Fedora Core 6 workstation with OpenSSH installed. I can login
>to it with both with windows- and linux-boxes. My problem is when I try
>to use Putty with X11-forward. There is no problem when logging in
>remotely from another linux-box, and I can start all GUI-apps. But when
>trying to do the same with putty from a windows-box(with X11-forward
>turned on), I only get this error:
>
>$ xclock
>X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
>shutdown).
>
>Are there anyone who knows if there are anys way to fix this?
>
Er, are you running an X server on your Windows box? The
X11-forward has to have something to connect to on your
end, you know. A Unix/Linux box runs an X server as the
foundation its standard GUI desktop, but a Windows box doesn't.
Windows doesn't even come with an X server out of the
box, and PuTTY does not provide one...

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

syscjm@sumire.eng.sun.com (Chris Mattern) writes:

> In article <1164121985.756553.178680@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
> luser32 wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I have a Fedora Core 6 workstation with OpenSSH installed. I can login
> >to it with both with windows- and linux-boxes. My problem is when I try
> >to use Putty with X11-forward. There is no problem when logging in
> >remotely from another linux-box, and I can start all GUI-apps. But when
> >trying to do the same with putty from a windows-box(with X11-forward
> >turned on), I only get this error:
> >
> >$ xclock
> >X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> >shutdown).
> >
> >Are there anyone who knows if there are anys way to fix this?
> >
> Er, are you running an X server on your Windows box? The
> X11-forward has to have something to connect to on your
> end, you know. A Unix/Linux box runs an X server as the
> foundation its standard GUI desktop, but a Windows box doesn't.
> Windows doesn't even come with an X server out of the
> box, and PuTTY does not provide one...

Chris, I agree, sounds like a lack of an X server on the windows box.

Cygwin has one for free. Select the xorg package in the
installer. cygwin.com

--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

On 21 Nov, 19:35, comph...@toddh.net (Todd H.) wrote:
> sys...@sumire.eng.sun.com (Chris Mattern) writes:
> > In article <1164121985.756553.178...@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups .com>,
> > luser32 wrote:
> > >Hi
>
> > >I have a Fedora Core 6 workstation with OpenSSH installed. I can login
> > >to it with both with windows- and linux-boxes. My problem is when I try
> > >to use Putty with X11-forward. There is no problem when logging in
> > >remotely from another linux-box, and I can start all GUI-apps. But when
> > >trying to do the same with putty from a windows-box(with X11-forward
> > >turned on), I only get this error:
>
> > >$ xclock
> > >X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> > >shutdown).
>
> > >Are there anyone who knows if there are anys way to fix this?
>
> > Er, are you running an X server on your Windows box? The
> > X11-forward has to have something to connect to on your
> > end, you know. A Unix/Linux box runs an X server as the
> > foundation its standard GUI desktop, but a Windows box doesn't.
> > Windows doesn't even come with an X server out of the
> > box, and PuTTY does not provide one...Chris, I agree, sounds like a lack of an X server on the windows box.
>
> Cygwin has one for free. Select the xorg package in the
> installer. cygwin.com
>
> --
> Todd H.http://www.toddh.net/

Okay, so I have to install an X-Server on all the windows-boxes to?

Hmm, now I understand why it didn't work:P
Hehe, I'll try the cygwin-solution.

Thanks guys

On Nov 21, 4:13 pm, "luser32" <anris...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a Fedora Core 6 workstation with OpenSSH installed. I can login
> to it with both with windows- and linux-boxes. My problem is when I try
> to use Putty with X11-forward. There is no problem when logging in
> remotely from another linux-box, and I can start all GUI-apps. But when
> trying to do the same with putty from a windows-box(with X11-forward
> turned on), I only get this error:

Maybe VNC could be used as an alternative when doing this. Under Ubuntu
i do:

System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop

...then select "Allow other users to view your desktop".

Then i start WinXP (under VMWare-Player actually), fire up a VNC-client
like TightVNC and connect to the Linux-box specifying its IP.

--
mvh, Lars Rune Nøstdal
http://lars.nostdal.org/