How to X Forwarding with Putty

Unix machines have been able to run software on a remote machine and display the GUI locally. Linux and Mac OS X support X Forwarding with no extra software.
Any terminal on Linux should do X Forwarding.
For Mac users need to run "Applications > Utilities > XTerm". In a command line terminal run "ssh -Y user@server virtualbox" and you'll be running matlab on "server" but seeing it on your desktop. In this post we will discuss about How to X Forwarding with Putty.

Windows users need two pieces of software: an secure shell program (putty) to establish the remote connection and an X Server to handle the local display(xming). Click here to install putty and xming.

Below are the steps to configure putty:

1. Add Unix hostname
2. Switch Protocol to SSH
3. Type name of session in saved sessions
4. Click 'Save'

   

   putty: create session

5. Expand the 'SSH' tab from the 'Category' list
6. Choose 'X11' from 'SSH' list
7. Check 'Enable X11 Forwarding'

   

   putty: enable x11 forwarding

8. Choose 'Session' from 'Category' list
9. Click 'Save'

Below are the steps configuring Xming :

Just run "All Programs > Xming Xming" and it should work if you've got PuTTY configured. 

Connectiong putty :

1. Start Xming
2. Start Putty
3. Double click on the saved session that has been configured for X11 Forwarding
4. After connect, run application that use GUI, for example: virtualbox