Help: getting Gnucash to somewhat work in Windows

[Josh Sled]

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On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:20 -0700, Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote:
> Please advise. My wife runs her business from her Compaq laptop running
> WinXPhome, and would love to be able to access my gnucash installation on
> our home linux box. 
> 
> How would I set up her WinXPhome installation so she could access gnucash
> running downstairs? 

In summary:
  - run an X server on the windows box
  - ssh from windows to linux
  - run gnucash on the linux box
  - let ssh tunnel the X-windows traffic through back to x windows 
    on the windows box.

In short:

1/ install cygwin on the windows box
   - specifically needed: bash, openssh, x server

2/ On the windows box:

  Start > Run... > bash
  bash$ startx & # I've never done this, so this is handwave-y.
  bash$ ssh -X user at linuxbox
  Password: [login]

3/ On linux box (via ssh):

  bash$ gnucash &


At this point, gnucash should start displaying in the X Server on the
windows box, but running on the linux box.

For more info: http://www.google.com/search?q=remote+x+windows+howto

[Note that this has nothing to do with gnucash in particular, so I'll
probably ignore followup questions about it in this forum; your
distribution's support channels will probably be more useful.]

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