On Wednesday 05 April 2006 08:54, David Kirk wrote: > > Better yet, from the everyday PC you could ssh in to the junk PC, > export $DISPLAY=everydaypc:0 and run your favourite CD burning > application. It will display on the everyday PC, but run on the junk > PC using the junk PC's devices. I do this from my Windows PC at work > using Cygwin/X. Instructions are on the wiki at > http://clug.net.nz/index.php/Cygwin. >
A really neat alternative to Cygwin is Xming: http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ Xming is very simple to install and use. Tom
