On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:34:10 -0500 Leonid Grinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have a somewhat unique situation. > > You see, I have a fairly large USB Disk (512 MB), on which I placed > PuTTY. Then when I am at school (which uses crappy Windows XP), I > simply plug in the USB drive, fire up PuTTY and SSH into my Debian > "Testing" server at home. > > This is all well, except for just recently, I learned of the wonders > of X11 Forwarding. I set it up within my home Debian network and it > works fine, but I would like to know how to set up X11 Forwarding > between Windows and Debian. This in itself is not unique because all I > would normally have to do is install something like Cygwin/X, and I > would be all set. But in this case, I cannot do that because we are > not allowed to install anything on the school computers. If I keep it > on my USB disk, I am fine. > > And that brings me to my question. Is it possible to install something > like Cigwin/X on a USB Disk and then use it for X11 Forwarding under > PuTTY? I would very much love to do this because then I could pretty > much do anything without being constrained by obnoxious web blockers, > and filters (the school blocks nearly everything on port 80 that it > doesn't know what it is). Are you allowed to boot the computer off your usb disk? If yes, you could try installing something like FeatherLinux (http://featherlinux.berlios.de) on your usb drive and boot the computer off it. It would have ssh and X for you, along with a few other Linux programs. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
