freebsdguy

Last night a friend (on right) of mine tipped me off about an excellent X server for Windows. I got fed up using the cygwin so decided to try it out. Xming is a cool name too!

Here is what you need to get:

• Root Access
• Xorg installed
• SSH Access to the FreeBSD machine from the Windows machine
• Putty on the Windows machine
• Download Xming to the Windows machine

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Fancy increasing your ssh security? Worried people could login remotely as you if they steal your password? Want to remove the need to type a password at all?

Well, you’re in luck because you have the option of using public and private keys! What you do to generate these keys really depends on which operating system your client is running. I’ll approach this from my usual connection setup, from Windows XP to FreeBSD using Putty.

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