Running remote programs locally

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Andrew Clarke wrote:

> Hi.  I'm new to cygwin although I've been using Unix/Linux on and off 
> for several years.  I have the full cygwin-xfree package loaded and I'm 
> trying to ssh into my Linux computer and run applications locally.  So, 
> this is the process I go through:
> 
> Start bash shell
> Run 'xwin &'
> When it comes up, I 'ssh linuxcomputer' and enter my password

try DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X linuxcomputer. This enables encrypted
X11 communication over the ssh channel. You will not require the xhost
call anymore.

bye
	ago