Connect remotely to Unix/Linux using SSH with X-Windows support
Situation: you would like to connect remotely using SSH protocol to Linux/Unix OS from Windows environment and to run remotely a program that uses X-Windows (e.g. Eclipse) .
How can you do it?
- Download SSH client. The most popular is free PuTTY client (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)
- Secondly download and install X-Windows server for your Windows environment. I suggest to use xming (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming). xming installation tips are available here: http://gears.aset.psu.edu/hpc/guides/xming/
- Open Putty, go to Connection->SSH->X11 and enable X11 forwarding
- Connect to the remote host and launch the program
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