Windows SSH X11

#PuTTY on MS-Windows

Installing PuTTY

Go to the PuTTY download page

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Then download and run the Windows MSI installer putty-0.67-installer.msi

https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.67-installer.msi

Be warned: if you rather choose to download the stand alone components you will have to do some extra configuration work.

Installing Xming

Go to the Xming download page.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

Then download the Xming installer. Run the installer, accepting all of the defaults as you step through the wizard.

Putty configuration

Again, hold up a Red card if you need help!

Enable X11 forwarding in PuTTY

1. Run PuTTy (Start menu -> All Programs -> PuTTY -> PuTTY)
2. Load the previous settings that you saved. (Select the "Session" node in the tree on the left, select your session name in the list, then hit the "Load" button.
3. Open up the tree to the left to the "X11" node (Connection -> SSH -> X11)
4. Check "Enable X11 forwarding"
5. In the "X display location" edit box enter: localhost:0
6. In the tree on the left select the "Session" node (you might have to scroll it up to see this node)
7. If you want to, enter a new name for the session with X11 forwarding enabled in the "Saved Sessions" edit box, then click the "Save" button. This saves all your settings (including the private key), and allows you simply "Load" them the next time you run PuTTY. It's a convenience to save setup time.
8. Click the "Open" button to connect to your running VM.
9. You should now have a terminal session on your remote computer!
10. Green Card!