x11 tunelling with putty to Xming Server on Windows machine

x11 tunelling with putty to Xming Server on Windows machine

[Jannis]

Dear List,


I am trying to connect with Emacs (and ESS) via ssh to a remote machine but could not establish x11 tunelling. I managed to install and configure Putty so that I can use plink to establish the connection by running:

M-x ssh RET <hostname> RET <password> RET

In my .emacs file I added:

(require 'ssh)
(setq ssh-program "plink")

I run a Xming Server on the Windows machine and installed ssh.el. I would now like to tunnel x11 Windows over the ssh connection. How would I set this up? I probably just need to add -X to the plink command but do not know how and where?

I suceeded to tunnel x11 when I run plink from the Windows prompt, so I think everything else is set up correctly.


Thanks a lot
Jannis

Re: x11 tunelling with putty to Xming Server on Windows machine

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:00:28 +0100 (BST)
> From: Jannis <bt_jannis@yahoo.de>
> 
> I am trying to connect with Emacs (and ESS) via ssh to a remote machine but could not establish x11 tunelling. I managed to install and configure Putty so that I can use plink to establish the connection by running:
> 
> M-x ssh RET <hostname> RET <password> RET
> 
> In my .emacs file I added:
> 
> (require 'ssh)
> (setq ssh-program "plink")

What is ssh.el?  It's not part of Emacs, AFAICT.

> I run a Xming Server on the Windows machine and installed ssh.el. I would now like to tunnel x11 Windows over the ssh connection. How would I set this up? I probably just need to add -X to the plink command but do not know how and where?

I have no idea how to do that via ssh.el, perhaps there's some
variable there that lets you specify command-line options to plink.
Then you can put "-X" there.

Alternatively, define a PuTTY session for that machine (by launching
the PuTTY configure dialog), and check the "Enable X11 forwarding"
checkbox on the SSH->X11 tab.  I think this will give you what you
want.