Ok, I think there is a basic misunderstanding here. If all you want is a remote xterm (a terminal window to a linux box in this case), then putty is roughly equivelent. An xterm will give you a command line interface to a system. Putty will give you a command line interface to a remote system via SSH. If you want a remote X desktop that will let you run all sorts of X apps (netscape, open office, xeyes, whatever) in an X GUI environment, then you need an X server running on the machine you'll be sitting at. If this is a MS Windows based system, you'll need something like X-Win32, Exceed, Reflections for X, or XFree86 inside a Cygwin environment. If you are at all worried about data security on your network, you'll probably want to run your X session over SSH via Putty. If you aren't worried about data security on your network for whatever reason (you aren't going over the internet, you trust everyone on your network, or whatever), then you can take SSH out of the picture. Again, if your goal is to simply have a remote xterm window, then Putty over ssh is functionally equivelent and much more secure. If you want a full X environment on a remote box then you need to look at something like X-Win32, XFree86 with Cygwin, or something similar. One other way to accomplish this is with something called VNC. http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ Again, if you've got any concerns about data security over your network, you'll still want to run VNC over SSH. Jeff On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Sam MacDonald wrote: > I can login using ssh and putty now. > > LMAO! > When I run "startx" X windows starts on the machine not in putty. > However, I'm not logged on to the machine as root it does all that for > me DOE! > So anyone who walks up to the machine can now do anything they want to > as "root". I'm totally sure I don't want my Son who is 9 running > anything on my Linux box as "root". > > This is from the Putty User Manual. > *** > In order to use this feature, you will need an X display server for your > Windows machine, such as X-Win32 or Exceed. This will probably install > itself as display number 0 on your local machine; if it doesn't, the > manual for the X server should tell you what it does do. > *** > So Putty does require an XTerm to be installed on the machine. If I have > an Xterm installed why would I use Putty? It would be redundant and take > resources. > > Lets go back to Cygwin and look at that. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list