X-Win32: Passive Mode
Passive mode is when X-Win32 is running without a connection being established. X-Win32 will be passive until X communication is being received by the Windows machine. Once received, X-Win32 will translate and display.
Usage for Passive Mode:
- Using a third party application such as Putty or SecureCRT to connect to their Unix/Linux host and require X traffic to be translated.
- Users who are being sent X communication from another computer.
- User has an X application on their Windows machine that needs to be translated.
X-Win32 19 and Higher
In X-Config, select the “Window” tab. Check the box “Show X-Win32 menu in notification area”. Hit “Apply”. This will launch X-Win32 in the system tray when a session is launched.
After checking the box “Show X-Win32 menu in notification area”, go to xwin32.exe located in the installation folder. By default X-Win32 19 is installed at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\StarNet\X-Win32 19\xwin32.exe
- You can create a shortcut by right clicking on the xwin32.exe
Running xwin32.exe will launch X-Win32 in the system tray.
X-Win32 18
When executing X-Win32, X-Win32 will run in the foreground with a session option window prompted.
Different ways to start Passive Mode in X-Win32 18
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- Start X-Win32. X-Config window will appear. If you do not have any session created, click the “Launch” button located on the right of X-Config.
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- Run the xwin32.exe located in the installation folder. By default X-Win32 18 is installed at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\StarNet\X-Win32 18\xwin32.exe
- You can create a shortcut by right clicking on the xwin32.exe
- When launched, X-Config and the X-Win32 session option window will appear. The session option window indicates that X-Win32 is running.
- Run xwin32.exe without X-Config
- Create an X-Win32 session.
- Please create the session with your host, username, password, and command or you will receive an error window. You can use the command
exit
- Please create the session with your host, username, password, and command or you will receive an error window. You can use the command
- Launch the session. The session option window will be prompted which indicates that X-Win32 is running.
- Create a shortcut for the created session by right clicking on the session in X-Config and selecting “Shortcut”.
- Launching from the shortcut will run X-Win32 without X-Config.
- Create an X-Win32 session.
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- **The shortcut can be placed in the
- Run the xwin32.exe located in the installation folder. By default X-Win32 18 is installed at:
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- in Windows in ordered to be launched when you first start Windows**
X-Win32 2014 and Below
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- Simply launching X-Win32 will run X-Win32 in Passive Mode in the background under the
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Security Notes:
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- Using a third party ssh application and setting your own display will cause the X traffic to be transferred over port 6000 instead of using the default ssh port 22. To use ssh port throughout the session, please enable
- on your host and ssh application. Also, do not set your display.