[SWLUG] LinuxConf

[Terry John]

>> Bit of a pain though since they only work on X and I'm doing admin
via 
>> SSH terminal.
>> 
>> Any good SSH X emulators for Windows? The one I use needs telnet & I 
>> don't want to have to do that.

>Do you mean something to do X forwarding over ssh? I've never done
this, but I'd have guessed >that installing cygwin's X server, along
with PuTTY would work. Cygwin may even have an ssh >client built-in -
it's been ages since I used it, I'm afraid.
>
>cygwin X: http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/
>putty: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Something like that. I thought cygwin was Linux on windows. I've got a
real linux box but I use W2K as a desktop. I'll have a look. If cygwin
can help it could be better than messing about with adduser, addgroup &
all their friends :-)
Terry


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