Remote Desktop via Xming

Xming is a port of the X Window System to the Microsoft Windows operating system. Basically, it runs an X Server on your Windows machine, and client application can be run on the remote Linux machine (LM) and displayed on your Windows machine (WM).

To use it, you'll have to install Xming and putty on WM. Now run Xming X Server on localhost:0.0. Then, use Putty to connect to LM, and don't forget to enable X11 forwarding as shown below.

Most probably, X11 forwarding is not enabled on your LM ssh daemon. So change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to include:

X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
And, restart sshd
/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart

Now, you'll need to re-ssh to LM using Putty. Check the event log ensure that "X11 forwarding enabled" is there and on the terminal type echo $DISPLAY whether it's been set by Putty.

Well, that be it. I ran konqueror, and the result is as shown below.