To Run Discovery Visualization Environment (DVE) on

Windows

To run DVE on windows we need to have

1) A windows based PC
2) An SSH client
3) Xming X server

Installing SSH Client:

We shall go with Putty,

PuTTY is an SSH and telnet client, developed originally by Simon Tatham for
the Windows platform. PuTTY is open source software that is available with
source code and is developed and supported by a group of volunteers.

You can download putty here

Installing Putty:

1) Make sure you have upgraded to Service Pack 2 (SP2) if running

Windows XP.
2) You will see the following intro screen. Click [Next].
3) The default installation location is recommended. Click [Next]

4) The Start Menu folder is simply the name of the sub directory under
which your PuTTY shortcuts will be located. The default value should be
fine. Click [Next].
5) Additional tasks include creating shortcuts in various locations to make
PuTTY SSH easier to access. The following option set is reasonable.
Click [Next].

6) The installer will verify the settings. If everything looks as you set it in
previous steps, click [Install].
7) Following a brief installation status screen, you should see the following
dialog indicating successful installation of PuTTY. You are now
equipped to connect to our clusters remotely. Uncheck "View
README.txt" and click [Finish].
Tips For Putty
TIP 1: To avoid re-entering your preferences each time you connect to a
machine, you can save your settings in a specific session, or to have the
settings available at all times and applied to all future sessions by default,
save your settings to "Default Settings" session. To do this, in the
"Session" configuration window, type "Default Settings" into the "Saved
Sessions" field, and click [Save]:
TIP 2: To save a session to a specific host, enter the host name in the
"Host Name" field, then name the session using the "Saved Sessions"
field, and click [Save]:
Installing Xming:

1) Download Xming from here: and Run it

2) Welcome to the Xming Setup Wizard: Next

3) Select Destination Location: take default C:\Program Files\Xming

4) Select Components: take default, click Next

5) Select Additional Tasks: take default, click Next

6) Ready to Install: click Install

7) click Finish

After this we can invoke DVE

By typing dve command in putty
Troubleshooting:
1.When u get the following error

Try reinstalling Xming

and
Configure X11 Forwarding in PuTTY SSH:

In the Putty configuration window, select "Connection->SSH->X11" and

make sure the "Enable X11 forwarding box is checked, then return to the
Session category and click [Open] when you are ready to connect to the
specified machine:
2) If u get DVE and if the fonts appear this way

Try installing Xming-fonts

U can Download this here:

 double-click Xming-fonts-*-setup.exe
 Welcome to the Xming-fonts Setup Wizard: Next
 Select Destination Location: take default, click Next
 Select Components: select all Fonts available, click Next
 Select Start Menu Folder: take default, click Next
 Ready to Install: click Install

If the problem persists even after installing fonts:

 Try by including the font directory at startup like this (you have to
include any defaults you need)
Run the following command in command prompt from the Xming folder

>Xming -fp "C:/Program Files/Xming/fonts/misc/,C:/Program

Files/Xming/fonts/TTF/, C:/Program Files/Xming/fonts/75dpi/,C:/Program
Files/Xming/fonts/100dpi/, C:/WINDOWS/Fonts" -multiwindow -clipboard

4) If u get the following error

Check the if Xming is running in the taskbar, if not run Xming

Finally u Get