I can login using ssh and putty now. LMAO! When I run "startx" X windows starts on the machine not in putty. However, I'm not logged on to the machine as root it does all that for me DOE! So anyone who walks up to the machine can now do anything they want to as "root". I'm totally sure I don't want my Son who is 9 running anything on my Linux box as "root". This is from the Putty User Manual. *** In order to use this feature, you will need an X display server for your Windows machine, such as X-Win32 or Exceed. This will probably install itself as display number 0 on your local machine; if it doesn't, the manual for the X server should tell you what it does do. *** So Putty does require an XTerm to be installed on the machine. If I have an Xterm installed why would I use Putty? It would be redundant and take resources. Lets go back to Cygwin and look at that. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list