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Adding Sessions to X-Win32
Topics: Introduction | Configuration | Usage Notes
Introduction
These instructions will add sessions to the X-Win32 software to support SENS timeshare and UBUnix sessions. If you have not done so already, you should download X-Win32, install it, and read the appropriate usage notes for your Windows XP or Windows Vista system.
Please note that X-Win32 only runs on computers that have Microsoft Windows installed on them.
Configuration
Running X-config
- Launch the program called "X-Config", located in the newly created "X-Win32 8.1" program group in your "Start" menu's program list.
- Click once on the "Shared Sessions" folder icon under the "Sessions" tab, then click "Manual..." under "New Session" on the right side of the screen.
- Select your connection method based on the list below and fill in the appropriate information for the session you want to use.
- Click "Save".
- Click "Apply" and if you are finished adding the sessions you wish to use click "OK" to finish the configuration.
Recommended Session Settings
| Session Name: | Sessions: | |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering Unix | Connection method: | StarNetSSH |
| Host: | unix.eng.buffalo.edu | |
| Port: | 22 | |
| Command: | xterm -ls -sb -fn 9x15 | |
| Engineering Linux | Connection method: | StarNetSSH |
| Host: | linux.eng.buffalo.edu | |
| Port: | 22 | |
| Command: | xterm -ls -sb -fn 9x15 | |
| Engineering SGI | Connection method: | StarNetSSH |
| Host: | toybox.eng.buffalo.edu | |
| Port: | 22 | |
| Command: | xterm -ls -sb -fn 9x15 | |
| NSM Unix | Connection method: | StarNetSSH |
| Host: | unix.nsm.buffalo.edu | |
| Port: | 22 | |
| Command: | xterm-ls -sb -fn 9x15 | |
| NSM Linux | Connection method: | StarNetSSH |
| Host: | linux.nsm.buffalo.edu | |
| Port: | 22 | |
| Command: | xterm -s -sb -fn 9x15 | |
| UBunix | Connection method: | StarNetSSH |
| Host: | ubunix.buffalo.edu | |
| Port: | 22 | |
| Command: | xterm -ls -sb -fn 9x15 | |
Running X-Win32
- Launch "X-Win32" from the "X-Win32 8.1" program group (an "X" icon should appear near the clock in the Task Bar's Notification Area, located on the lower right-hand corner of the screen).
- Right-click on the "X" icon and select "Shared Sessions".
- You should see a list with the sessions you created earlier. Select the session you want to use and you are now ready to run your programs remotely on either the SENS timeshare systems or the UBUnix central timeshare system.
Usage Notes
- In order to run your application you need to make sure you are connected to the internet, and if you are off-campus you must also be connected to UB VPN.
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