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Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 [message #64280 is a reply to message #64271]

Wed, 17 December 2008 06:57

T.H.
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Registered: December 2008

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On Dec 16, 9:57 pm, "pfo...@bcm.tmc.edu" <pf...@bcm.tmc.edu> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am (occasionally) using IDL on a MacOS X 10.5.6, and I want to set
> it up so a person I am collaborating with can access my Mac, which is
> considerably more powerful than his PC laptop. I believe I have solved
> the issues with port forwarding through my firewall/vpn box and
> getting the Mac configured to accept the ssh –X logins.
>
> Not being a unix person, I am now at a point where I can open a remote
> (severe) X11 shell and enter CLI commands, but I don’t know how to
> open/run IDL from the X11 shell and see the GUI. Some of this may be
> due to paths being needed to be set.
>
> I would greatly appreciate advice on how to get this functioning. It
> is probably simple once I know.
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick Ford, M.D.
> Pfo...@bcm.tmc.edu

I've never set anything like this up with a Mac but have done it many
times under Linux. My guess is that all you need to do is enable X11
tunneling on the SSH client (running on the remote PC). This is easy
to find and do if you are using Putty. Also you need to make sure
something like Xming is installed on the remote PC. Let us know if
this does the trick.

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		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Patrick V. Ford on Wed, 17 December 2008 19:33
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: T.H. on Wed, 17 December 2008 06:57
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 17 December 2008 05:30
		Re: Remotely running IDL on a Mac using X11 By: T.H. on Thu, 18 December 2008 05:41

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