CAE Lab File Server
Printing to CAE Lab Printers
X Servers for Windows, Mac, etc.
Displaying Workstation Programs on Your Office PC
The combination of the X Window System and SSH means that you can run an application on one of the CAE Lab workstations without leaving your office. This document should provide help in doing that.
You will, of course, need to install both an X server and an SSH client on your office PC. We've listed a few free or low-cost X servers and several free SSH clients elsewhere on the site.
Windows Example (using Putty and X-Win32)
For the purposes of this document, we'll assume you've already installed PuTTY (version 0.52 or later) and X-Win32 on a Windows-based PC.
Start up X-Win32, and cancel out of the New Connection
Wizard. Right-click the X-Win32 icon in your system tray, and select XConfig. Select the Security tab and add 127.0.0.1 to the X-Host list. Check the boxes labeled Access Control and Use XAuth, then click the OK button at the bottom.
Similar to the example shown for simple command-line access to
the workstations, we'll enter one of the CAE Lab workstations' hostname into the PuTTY session settings and set the Protocol
to SSH.
Toward the bottom of the PuTTY settings window, we'll check
the Enable X11 Forwarding box, and leave the X Display Location
box set to localhost:0. Now you can connect to the remote workstation by clicking the Open button.
Now everything should be ready for you to test your ability to
run a graphical application remotely. After you've logged in, you can try typing the commands xclock, xlogo, or xcalc. If any of those work, you should be able to run more useful graphical applications like ANSYS, I-DEAS, CFX, or Matlab.
Unix Example
Assuming you have an X Server and OpenSSH installed on your
computer, this should be as simple as typing ssh -X remotehost
if you use the same username on your local computer as you do in the CAE Lab, or ssh -X remoteuser@remotehost if you have different usernames.
