A Linux server can be remotely administered from a windows PC using Putty/PLink and Xming.

Putty

Putty is an ssh terminal application which will give you secure access to a text based shell on the server.

• This media:putty-settings.zip file contains registry settings, which you can import with regedit.exe. This will set up a putty connection called "ares" which should appear when you run putty.
• download Putty and run it.
• Simply select "ares" and click open.
• Log in to the server
• If you want to start a GUI application you need to make sure that Xming is running

PLink

PLink is used to create secure tunnels for port forwarding.

Xming can use PLink to connect to ares and launch a program directly off the server.

Xming

• Xming is a GUI server which can be used by programs running on ares.

You can either start the X server and leave it running until a client application needs it, or you can use the bundled XLaunch utility with PLink to make a secure connection to ares and start an application on the server. More details are on the net.