title: Opening .pdf using Putty ssh?
body: <p>I am using a windows based computer and have ssh into to my universities cluster using Putty.  It connects without a problem but when I try to access a .pdf file I get the following error messages.</p>
  
  <pre><code>evince /cm/shared/docs/cm/user-manual.pdf
  Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display
  
  gnome-open /cm/shared/docs/cm/user-manual.pdf
  GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Not running within active session)
  GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Not running within active session)
  -bash-4.1$ Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am not familiar with linux commands or ssh, sorry if this is a stupid question; any help will be much appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Cheers,
  Jim</p>