X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/blobdiff_plain/33f07e9636e80bb17f25f97145ca2e0eb262db30..97e12fcd7b1155bdb16a7b39c0105f493f0ebfa3:/doc/using.but diff --git a/doc/using.but b/doc/using.but index 0dbdfe4a..3ca6b267 100644 --- a/doc/using.but +++ b/doc/using.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.25 2004/07/25 12:12:53 jacob Exp $ +\versionid $Id: using.but,v 1.29 2004/09/16 15:44:58 jacob Exp $ \C{using} Using PuTTY @@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ value using the configuration box; see \k{config-scrollback}. \S{using-sysmenu} The \i{System menu} If you click the left mouse button on the icon in the top left -corner of PuTTY's window, or click the right mouse button on the -title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu containing -items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close. +corner of PuTTY's terminal window, or click the right mouse button +on the title bar, you will see the standard Windows system menu +containing items like Minimise, Move, Size and Close. PuTTY's system menu contains extra program features in addition to the Windows standard options. These extra menu commands are @@ -273,6 +273,8 @@ then PuTTY cannot currently support it. If this is a problem for you, you should mail the PuTTY authors \#{FIXME} and give details (see \k{feedback}). +For more options relating to X11 forwarding, see \k{config-ssh-x11}. + \H{using-port-forwarding} Using \i{port forwarding} in SSH The SSH protocol has the ability to forward arbitrary network @@ -350,7 +352,8 @@ your client PC can connect to the forwarded port. remote-to-local port forwardings (so that machines other than the SSH server machine can connect to the forwarded port.) Note that this feature is only available in the SSH 2 protocol, and not all -SSH 2 servers support it (OpenSSH 3.0 does not, for example). +SSH 2 servers honour it (in OpenSSH, for example, it's usually +disabled by default). You can also specify an \i{IP address} to listen on. Typically a Windows machine can be asked to listen on any single IP address in @@ -364,6 +367,10 @@ available for local-to-remote forwarded ports; SSH1 is unable to support it for remote-to-local ports, while SSH2 can support it in theory but servers will not necessarily cooperate. +(Note that if you're using Windows XP Service Pack 2, you may need +to obtain a fix from Microsoft in order to use addresses like +\cw{127.0.0.5} - see \k{faq-alternate-localhost}.) + \H{using-rawprot} Making \i{raw TCP connections} A lot of \I{debugging Internet protocols}Internet protocols are