Installing Mathematica Fonts Locally for Remote Access on Odyssey

Don't like RCNX? Want to get a Mathematica GUI over ssh? Then this is for you, because you need to install all of the Mathematica fonts on your local machine.
Disclaimer: Ripped shamelessly from here. I've made it Odyssey-specific. This worked for me with Ubuntu 8.04... it may not work for your obscure version of cygwin.
  1. First you will need to download the following mathematica fonts archive: [http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/general/files/Math_6_Linux.tar.gz].
  2. Untar the Archive to some directory. Make sure X windows is running, and issue the following commands in terminal: 
    mkdir ~/mathfonts
mv Math_6_Linux.tar.gz ~/mathfonts
cd ~/mathfonts
tar -xzvf Math_6_Linux.tar.gz
rm -f Math_6_Linux.tar.gz
  3. Rebuild the fonts.dir files. Using the same terminal as in the previous step, issue the following commands: 
    mkfontdir ~/mathfonts/BDF
mkfontdir ~/mathfonts/Type1
  4. Log in to Odyssey: 
    ssh -Y <username>@odyssey.fas.harvard.edu
  5. Generate a file to launch Mathematica and tell it where to find your fonts. Using your favorite text editor, create a new file (in this example, named mLinuxUser.sh) resembling the following with <home_dir> replaced with the full path to your home directory on your local (client) machine: 
    #!/bin/sh

xset fp+ /<home_dir>/mathfonts/Type1
xset fp+ /<home_dir>/mathfonts/BDF

mathematica $@
  6. Run Mathematica, telling it where your fonts are installed: 
    sh mLinuxUser.sh
Documentation

Wolfram's documentation for making Mathematica fonts available for remote execution can be found here.