Sridhar G wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> So I install the Linux specific X Server on Linux and the windows
> specific viewer on my win client. Is that correct?
No, you only need the X server on the Linux box IF you are going
to display X programs to the monitor attached to the Linux box.
If you are displaying the programs on ANOTHER box, then that is
the computer that needs the X server.
Do not confuse X servers with regular servers. It is all
backwards. Here is an example.
I have a computer called "silver.nook.net". In it I have
installed Netscape Communicator, but incredibly enough I
have not installed XFree or any X windows AT ALL. In fact
this computer does not even have a monitor or keyboard, it
is a headless computer with an ethernet port only.
On another computer, my workstation, amber.nook.net, I have
installed XFree86 and the XFree96-Mach64 server.
I can sit at amber.nook.net, and on its keyboard and monitor
display the Netscape Communicator program that runs on silver.
This puts the X server on the computer I SIT at, not the one
running the X program.
Is this clear? the above is a true-to-life example. I also
do the same thing to play KDE games but display then on computers
that do not even have KDE. kmahjongg comes to mind.
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