Re: Graphical terminal (n00b alert)

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 09/15/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 14:30:57 -0400

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AlexCPU wrote:

> Is there anyway of accessing the X-Windows stuff on a remote Linux box
> (Mandrake 10.0) in Windows XP across a network, something a bit like
> pcAnywhere by Symantec, so it can be configured without using the command
> line, and without having to find a monitor to plug into it?

Yes. You have a couple of good choices.

You can
a) configure the Linux system to have a local X server that exports the
   display using the VNC protocol. You can then run a VNC client on your
   WinXP system (this can be the java client, running in your web
   browser) to 'see' the desktop remotely, or

b) you can install an X server on your WinXP (I use CygWin's free port
   of XFree86 for WinNT, but you can use one of the other products that
   other posters have recommended), and run applications on the Linux
   system that display /directly/ to your WinXP X server.

- --

Lew Pitcher, IT Consultant, Enterprise Application Architecture
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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