Remote Access and Tunneling X-windows ?
The following is generic information that applies for access from here on campus as well as remote access like from home or another work place. Clearly this is not the only way to use X-Windows remotely, but it works, and has the following benefits: 1. The session is encrypted, so there are no clear text passwords or data. 2. The data stream is compressed before transmission, which generally results on better overall performance. 3. If you have a software firewall like Zone Alarm installed on your PC, or you use a hardware firewall such as would be found in a cable/DSL router, this method works without having to establish extra firewall rule sets. The reason for this is that since the X-session is tunneled within the ssh session, the X-requests going to the X-server on your PC appear to be coming from another application on your PC (the ssh client, which manages the tunneled session), NOT from the remote computer. Because of this, no other special accesses or permissions need to be ide
