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StarNetSSH for ssh connections

X-Win32 includes an integrated ssh client, SSH, for starting your remote X11 Client applications that reside on your Linux, Unix, or Bsd machine (e.g. Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, FreeBSD, etc.) and having them display on your Windows machine via X-Win32.

SSH integrates fully with X-Win32 and automatically sets your Xauthority MIT magic cookie for seamless X11 Client authorization (improved in X-Win32 8 !), automatically sets the DISPLAY environment variable on your remote host, and encrypts and optionally compresses all of your X11 Client application network traffic for security, speed, and efficient use of network bandwidth. Using SSH with compression enabled (the default in X-Win32 8) together with our Window Caching feature in X-Win32 8 results in performance on slow connections similar to competing products that lack the same quality of graphics display as X-Win32.

Just follow the steps below to create a StarNetSSH session:

  1. For X-Win32 8 and later:
    1. Open X-Config’s Session form
    2. Click the Wizard… button in the New Session group box
    3. Select the SSH session type and enter a name for your session, click Next
    4. Enter the host name or IP address of your remote host, click Next
    5. Optionally enter your login name and/or password (you will be prompted at connection time for these if you do not enter one or both of them), click Next
  1. Select your host type to fill in a pre-defined command to start an X11 terminal on your remote host, click Finish


    NOTE: With SSH sessions you should not attempt to pass the -display command-line argument to your remote X11 Client, nor should you attempt to set the DISPLAY environment variable, as SSH will work with your remote SSH Server to set the DISPLAY environment variable automatically.

    See Also

    X11 forwarding refused
    Connection methods missing: Xdmcp is the only method available

    Category:Features
    Category:Sessions -> SSH



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