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Using Cygwin as XServer and putty as terminal client.

Firsly, install Cygwin with XServer. Then, start your xserver in the cygwin bash shell by typing "startx &" so that you will have an additional xterm for configuration or xwin -broadcast to start a broadcast XDMCP session instead. Then, after started xserver, it will pop a xwindow client. In your xwindow client (normally xterm), authenticate (if required) any client that attempt to connect to your server by typing in xhost + < IP / hostname > (note: if hostname unresolved, add it in at /usr/hosts. Also to identify if your client having authentication problem. Normally, your client will get error message like authentication error - Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key ) Then, you would need to configure your putty session so that it would forward X11 to Xserver, this can be done so by going to Connection - SSH - X11- Tick Enable X11 Forwarding And key in X-Display Location as "localhost:0" (note, assuming your xserver is running at localhost) Then, start ...