<div><div dir="auto">Depends on exactly what you mean by headless, but I usually put VNC on the backend box and then open a connection to that. (No monitor = headless, but it does have a larger software load than a server with no GUI capability. )</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thomas</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:35 AM Peter Bennett <<a href="mailto:cats22@comcast.net">cats22@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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              <div>Using putty/Xming requires turning on X11 forwarding
                in putty before starting the session. I think that it is
                in the session properties. That is the equivalent to the
                -Y option in ssh. It has been a long time since I have
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            <div>Yeah I've done that but I still get the errors :(</div>
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            <div>and I get the same issues when logging in via SSH from
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            <div>however looks like it should work from</div>
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            <div><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=683" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=683</a><br>
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            <div>so perhaps the issue is with the X server on the
              backend?</div>
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            <div>Cheers,</div>
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            <div>Anthony</div>
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    Instructions are in the wiki (for the case of connecting from a
    Linux machine to your backend on another Linux machine) If you are
    trying from Windows that will be a different story.<br>
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