[Info-vax] DECwindows over PuTTY

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-12-13, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <2f3268cf-f734-4cd3-ad65-80e7dc5a2d9d at googlegroups.com>,
> <dlevine at schoolfortomorrow.net> wrote:
>>Okay,
>>So, I set up TCP/IP.  I am using PuTTY to SSH to the emulated system.  I am using Xming on Windows 7 as my display.  I am a VMS beginner.  My question is, how do I start DECWindows and make it display on XMing?
>>Thx!
>
> You don't.  Putty is not an X11 server.  Try again.
> --scott

>From his point of view, this is actually a reasonable question.

The SSH protocol can be used as a transport for X11 applications running on
the box at the other end of a SSH connection and I do it all the time using
Linux with OpenSSH.

The missing piece is whether PuTTY will look for, and integrate with,
any X11 server running locally under Windows (which means PuTTY would have
support for transporting X11 connections as a prerequisite).

I don't know the answer to that question without research.

Simon.

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