You cannot telnet (or ssh) to guinness or the netBSD machines and run a graphics program. You must either run the program in the lab, or you need to "export" your display. If you are running Windows on a PC, there are a number of programs for exporting X-windows programs. Below are directions from a former student regarding one of these packages. ---------------------------------------------------------------- One of the better packages for exporting X-windows programs to windows machines is X-win32 5.4 You can download a trial version from http://www.starnet.com/ (you really only need a trial version since it runs long enough to test your programs). Run X-Win32 after you installed it and make sure its in your taskbar. Mouse over the icon to see the Display number (you should see something like "Display=0"). Next find out your ip address by running cmd from start->run, and typing ipconfig. This will give you your 4 number ip address. Next, connect to lab.cs.stevens.edu. Make sure you are in bash shell (or any other shell that supports export command, or just run "bash"). Enter the following: export DISPLAY=YOUR_IP:DISPLAY_NUMBER so for example, export DISPLAY=123.234.212.122:0 Then run your programs (try xterm or netscape)