Re: Gnome & FreeBSD from putty

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Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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23 Sep 2007 15:31:58
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Re: Gnome & FreeBSD from putty
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On Sunday 23 September 2007 15:35:00 Timothy McGee wrote:

> Any way of running Gnome or Firefox from putty remotely? What's the best
> way to test for the displays setup, etc?
>
> I'd like to keep it really simple for rebooting radios & equipment that
> require a web interface. My first attempt simply so display not configured
> and am really rusy on my unix. FreeBSD & I'm very rusty.

If all you need is access to web interfaces on localhost of the remote
machine, setup a portforward and access it with your local browser. Putty
being a windows program, you probably won't get remote X to work anyway.

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Mel


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