Cygwin and Windows

[oliver79]

Hi all:

Total newbie for please forgive!

Okay I have Debian Linux set-up on a server, and I wish to open that up on my laptop! However my laptop run XP, and there is no feasibility for an alternative O/S due to .NET development performed! Now I have heard about Cygwin and how you can open up a connection and perform related tasks! Just wondering if someone could provide further information on this? And how one would go about achieving this?

Many thanks

Oliver

[Thinker]

Hi oliver79,
Otherwise, you can use PuTTY, which is a great Telnet and SSH client, to login to your Debian based server.

With Regards,
Thinker

[nature]

hi oliver79,Putty is simple and good(I use Putty too)
but if you still wanna use cygwin check out:
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~you/notes/cygwin-install.html
http://www.jfitz.com/tips/ssh_for_windows.html
regards

[oliver79]

Hi:

Thanks for that.

I revisited Cygwin installation guide and realised that I hadn't installed X!

Well it now simply a case of from bash shell:X -fullscreen -broadcast

And you're into your Linux server!

Thanks

Oliver