Xming on Vista

One way to use Xming on Vista :-
It was hard for me to set up Xming on vista owing to my lack of experience in Unix based systems. Xming is a free X windows server for Windows (Xp/2003/Vista).

Download and install Xming server, Xming fonts. Start XLaunch and connect to a Linux machine by providing the required information.

Update "X0.hosts" in your local system, add ip address of the UNIX machine where you want to connect to.

Telnet using puTTY to UNIX machine and export DISPLAY,

bash$ export DISPLAY=your windows machine ip address : 0.0
xterm &

This will export the UNIX machine display to your windows machine.

Some useful links:

http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

http://xray1.physics.sunysb.edu/~micros/beamline/node47.html