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Set this variable to the hostname of your windows box (running Xming), and use the appropriate server instance number. The DISPLAY environment variable is used to choose the X server to attach to when running a GUI application. Set the DISPLAY environment variable on the Target Machine.Make a Terminal Connection to the Target Machine.įire up PuTTY and use telnet or ssh to make a terminal (command line) connection to the machine you want to run the GUI application on.
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The only difference is that this time you have to set the DISPLAY environment variable on the source machine too (this was done for you in Linux, because you were working within the X server environment).
#Xming access control install
The Xming and Xming-fonts packages download as executable's, so just run them and "next, next, next" your way through the install wizards the xming-tools package downloads as a zip archive, so extract it to somewhere on the path (eg: c:\windows\system32). For starters, download the xming, xming-fonts and xming-tools-and-clients packages. You can download Xming directly from the project's download page on SourceForge.
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#Xming access control software
But thanks to great open-source software like Xming, it's just as easy from windows too.īefore we get started we will have to download and install Xming. Well on a Unix-based OS, it's pretty much just as easy, right out of the box. But what about accessing your GUI remotely? Accessing your Linux machine remotely is a no-brainer on the command line thanks to built in support for services such as telnet and ssh.