[Info-vax] DECwindows over PuTTY

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <l8i7aa$cu4$2 at speranza.aioe.org>,
	Wilm Boerhout <wboerhout-remove at this-gmail.com> writes:
> dlevine at schoolfortomorrow.net mentioned  on 13-12-2013 17:52:
>> 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!
> 
> If you start PuTTY from your Xming-enabled PC with :
> 
>     C:\somewhere\PuTTY.exe -ssh -X system@<VMS IP addr>
> 
> then login to VMS, and then
> 
> $ MC DECW$STARTLOGIN
> 
> you should get your DECwindows login box back on your PC, which is now, 
> thanks to Xming, the X11 graphics device (aka display server) PuTTY 
> takes care of the X11 protocol forwarding over the ssh session.
> 
> If you do not, report back. There are some pitfalls, but it really 
> should work "out of the box"

Unless there is something strange about the SSH Server (we call it a
daemon on Unix but I guess that would be wrong on VMS :-) he should
be able to use the Xlaunch facility in XMing to create a config file
that will take care of all of this for him.  No need to login separately
to start DECW$STARTLOGIN.

bill

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