Re: Remote Desktops
From: Gary Stainburn (gary.stainburn_at_ringways.co.uk)
Date: 10/24/03
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To: redhat-list@redhat.com, "Wade Chandler" <wchandler@redesetgrow.com> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:59:49 +0100
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@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-admin@redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Ding Li
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:05 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> 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@zip.com.au wrote:
> >On 14:04 23 Oct 2003, Ding Li <achillis2002@netscape.net> 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.
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