On Friday 24 Oct 2003 4:39 am, Wade Chandler wrote: > You could purchase a (not cheap) Xserver for windows called X-Win32 and > use X over ssh. This works very well. I do this. You need a fast > connection if you do this over the internet though. Play with ssh > compression on and off. If you want a cheaper solution you could setup > Cygwin on the Windows box. Not sure how well it will work. I haven't > played around much with X in cygwin. X-Win32 works really well, however > to me it is a little expensive. But, it is the best X Server I have > seen for Windows yet. You won't have a remote desktop either. But, > what you will be able to do is run the remote graphical applications. I > used this more than VNC or remote desktops. The apps appear to run > right on your Windows machine (except for saving and editing files for > course). > > Wade Another good thing about X-Win32 is that it is try-before-you-buy (which I subsequently did) http://www.starnet.com/products/downloads.asp > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Ding Li > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:05 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Remote Desktops > > > Then try vnc. I used vnc to connect to linux before. The bad thing is > you get another desktop which is not the local one. Another bad thing > about vnc is it's slow. Sometimes you have to refresh manually. > > cs@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >On 14:04 23 Oct 2003, Ding Li <achillis2002@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >| Try rdesktop. I'm using it, pretty cool. Much faster than vnc. > > > >It goes the wrong way. It's fine for accessing the Windows machine from > > > >the linux box. However he wants to access a Linux desktop from the > >Windows machine. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
