[LUGSB] SSH Help?

[Tam Nguyen]

Reading the page, it doesn't say that it supports Vista. I was also hoping
to just use putty so that it would be easy for my dorm mates to control the
ubuntu laptop.

Why an X server would help me out, anyway?

Is there another solution?

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Benjamin Kudria <ben at kudria.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:13, Tam Nguyen <tamsanh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can some one help me? I have openssh-server installed into a laptop in my
> > dorm connected to a wifi router. I am able to ssh into it using putty on
> a
> > vista machine also connected to the same router. However, when I try to
> > execute commands like
> >
> >> ssh User at Computer amarok &
> >
> > It asks me to type in the User's password, and then says "Error: no
> display
> > specified"
> > So I tried setting the display like
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0.0
> >
> > but the command still doesn't work. I also have xauth installed.
>
> Did you install an X server?  It looks like Cygwin comes with one
> (http://x.cygwin.com/).
>
> Ben Kudria
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