using X-apps on remote Windows machine with putty

Posted in PCQ forum:

"VNC will need its port to be open, and by default it is unencrypted.

In case you want to tunnel X over SSH for greater security, you can do that also. You should install and run an X server on the Windows machine. There are many, including free ones based on cygwin.

Xming, a Free Software port of the X Window Server to Microsoft
Windows.
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming

can be download from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156984

(This is from PB)


(VNC in "listen" mode also probably works - I've not tried this. X-Manager is a shareware X server on Windows which has the ability to connect over ssh built-in.)

Once you have an X-server running on Windows, in putty, tick the check-box "Enable X forwarding" in Connection->SSH->Tunnels

Then run any X app from the ssh commandline, and the relevant window will open.