On Sun, Nov 14, 2004, Michael Sternberg wrote about "RE: [OT] minimal X and ssh for win32": > 1. Why do you think this is [OT] ? > 2. Its still big - 6.60 MB. What about "Run X from a floppy" ? > Do we have any smaller package for X server ?
If you're willing to relax the request for an "X server", and merely request that you can view on Windows graphical applications that are running on a remote Linux machine, VNC is an excellent solution. What you do is run "vncserver" on the Linux machine, and it starts a new X server (running on that Linux machine). You then connect to it from a Windows machine by running vncviewer which is much smaller than a floppy - or better yet, just point an existing browser to http://linuxmachine:5801, and amazingly you'll see your desktop inside the browser window! (this magic actually happens by the server returning a small Java applet which functions as a VNC viewer). This is what I use at work when I want to walk to a random Windows-running machine with nothing special installed (other than IE with a Java plugin) and be able to run X programs on my Linux machine. Note that VNC's security sucks (cleartext passwords, unencrypted traffic), so don't do this on the open Internet... -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Nov 14 2004, 1 Kislev 5765 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Seen on the back of a dump truck: http://nadav.harel.org.il |<---PASSING SIDE . . . . . SUICIDE---> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
