Using cygwin for Windows client

Install cygwin on Windows client

On the Micrsoft Windows system, you must install cygwin, which you can download from www.Cygwin.com

You can take the default download, but must in addition select components to get cygwin/X:
Under X11 select the xinit and xorg_server packages.
Under Net select the openssh package.
Below is a picture of the window where you select the packages. Click the mouse on the little plus sign inside the little box to open up each list. Then scroll through the list (each is in alphabetical order) and select the package to install. Select a package by clicking on the little circle with the arrows.

See the Cygwin/X page and in particular the instructions for downloading Cygwin/X from the Cygwin/X User's Guide for complete documentation.

Manually Running Linux Program from Windows Client

On the Windows client you must start the X server with the script:
c:\cygwin\bin\startxwin.bat or startxwin.exe if you have that and not startxwin.bat, or it might be just startxwin

You can do this by opening a cygwin terminal window by clicking on the cygwin icon on your desktop, and then type the command:
startxwin.bat
or
startxwin.exe
or just
startxwin
You can look in c:\cygwin\bin

You will get an X terminal window:

In the X terminal window type the command:

ssh -X login_name@IP_Address

Where login_name is the login user name on the linux server, and IP_Address is the IP address of the linux system on your local area network. You will be prompted for the password to log in. Once logged in, simply run the programs you want to run. For example, for DosimetryCheck run:
./DosimetryCheckTasks
The programs will popup on your Windows desktop. When done, type exit to close the X term window on your Windows client.

Desk Icon Running Linux Program from Windows Client

To make this more convenient where you can click on an icon and need to type in only two things, we have made a copy of startxwin.bat file and gave it the name RunDCOnServer.bat. The line that launches the terminal window was replaced with the line:
ssh -X %1
The bat file expects the argument: the login name@IP address of the server.
You can than create a short cut to this batch file on your desktop and run it from an icon on your desktop. The short cut for the target must be:
path_to\RunDCOnServer login_name@IP_address
An example is below:
where login_in would be the log_in name followed by @ and the IP address.

You can download the bat file you will need here, in the winzip file:
DCLinuxServer.zip
Extract the two files RunDCOnServer.bat and dcchk.ico to the working directory on the client. Right click on your desktop and go to New and select Short cut. Select RunDcOnServer.bat to run and type in the login name and @ and the IP address after it. Space after "bat", no spaces between log_in name, @ or the IP address. Put in side quotes " " if the log_in name has a space in it. Select dcchk.ico as the icon.
When you use the short cut, you will be prompted for the password and then type
./DosimetryCheckTasks
to run DosimetryCheckTasks

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