X Forwarding with Putty on Windows
Courtesy http://www.math.umn.edu/systems_guide/putty_xwin32.html Intro to X Forwarding Unix machines have been able to run software on a remote machine and display the GUI locally for almost two decades. Linux and Mac OS X support X Forwarding with no extra software. Any terminal on Linux should do X Forwarding, Mac users need to run " Applications > Utilities > XTerm ". In a command line terminal run " ssh -Y jdoe@compute.example.edu matlab " and you'll be running matlab on " compute.example.edu " but seeing it on your desktop. Windows users need two pieces of software: an secure shell program (ssh) to establish the remote connection and an X Server to handle the local display. Prerequisites Putty for SSH Xming for the XServer Configuring Putty Add Unix hostname Switch Protocol to SSH Type name of session in saved sessions Click 'Save' Expand the 'SSH' tab from the 'Category' list Choose 'X1...