RE: newbie Xlib install/configure question

["Mark D. Hansen" <m.hansen23@verizon.net>]

OK - so I am pretty slow at this Linux/X11 stuff.  I've got X running on
my server (debian01) at this point.  And I can open an Xterm using the
local monitor/keyboard on debian01.  But, this server is on a rack in a
closet in my basement.  The machines in my office are all Windows PCs.
I guess that I've figured out that I can't run an X session over the
network using my PuTTY SSH Client!

So, how can I open an X session with my debian01 server from a Windows
client?

Thanks,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org]On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 12:45 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: newbie Xlib install/configure question


Hello

Mark D. Hansen (<m.hansen23@verizon.net>) wrote:

> I've been running a debian server for a while with no X11.  I access
> it from SSH on a MS Windows machine.  Now, I want to be able to use
> X11.  So, I installed xlibs (apt-get install xlibs).  It installed OK,
> but I can't run "startx".  I get the following:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: /usr/bin/X11/X: No such
> file or directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 2: exec:
> /usr/bin/X11/X: cannot execute: No such file or directory giving up.
> xinit:  No such file or directory (errno 2):  unable to connect to X
> server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  unexpected signal 2.

You tried to run an complete X session. For this you need the X server
to be installed. I don't even know if it works like this over SSH at
all.

> What have I done wrong?  Can I run X11 over an SSH connection from a
> MS Windows machine?

Maybe if you install Cygwin and XFree under Windows:
http://x.cygwin.com/

Perhaps you could use VNC instead.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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