xterm: DISPLAY is not set

[jtwcarboy]

Hi,

I am running fedora 9 and then SSH to it from my windows vista machine using putty. I try to run xterm as me and not root and it says
xterm: DISPLAY is not set

I am doing this while i am also logged into the machine directly.

I couldnt find an answer to this issue that fixed my issue so im posting here.
Please advise me. Im new at this. I just want to be able to connect to this machine via putty and xterm to pull up my desktop. Or if im not understanding this at all let me know.

thanks

[falko]

Why don't you use VNC to connect to the remote desktop?
http://www.howtoforge.com/configure-...ubuntu-desktop

[jtwcarboy]

Actually i was having some problems getting VNC to work so i installed nx and it is working great remotely connecting from windows with no problems. Thank you for the suggestion.