Remote Access to UNIX X-Windows

In order to access X-window applications from your PC or Apple computer, you need to install ssh (Secure Shell) and Xwindows emulator on your PC or Apple Computer.

How I Get Started?

Start X-win32 (from Windows) X11, or MI/X (from a Macintosh)
Start ssh. Putty (Windows) or NiftyTelnetSSH (Macintosh). Login any of Supercomputing Institute's UNIX machine
Type who on the UNIX teriminal to find your machine name, for example: tornado.msi.umn.edu
Type setenv DISPLAY tornado.msi.umn.edu:0.0

You can enter any UNIX X-Window application command to invoke application such as netscape.

For Further Assistance

help@msi.umn.edu

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