emacs and putty

[twilbrand]

My workstation was recently updated to Windows 7. I've downloaded putty and have configured it to the same settings I had under Vista.

Whenever I ssh to a vm running Centos 5.4 and try to run emacs on a file, I'm getting an error about a connection to an X server:

[ecto1 ~]$ emacs foo.bar
Connection lost to X server `localhost:10.0'

I never received this error message when I had Vista. I can get around it by aliasing emacs to 'emacs -nw', but I don't feel that I should have to do this.

My co-worker has the same hardware that had the same upgrade and his sessions do not seem to be doing this.

Any advice? I can't find anything on google and don't know where else to start.

[ecto1 ~]$ emacs -version
GNU Emacs 21.4.1

[Roxoff]

It's trying to launch the X/graphical version of emacs. You probably want to go into your putty settings and turn OFF X forwarding. Log in afresh after you do this and see if the problem goes away.