On Tuesday 14 January 2003 02:40 am, Florian Thiel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm interested in a setup that can be used for regular thin-clients plus
> fat-clients (machines that normally run MS Windows). There should be
> some kind of "viewer" you can use to get terminal sessions in a window
> (or fullscreen, doesn't matter) during normal work on these machines.

> Has anyone done any testing with non-commercial X servers for Windows? I
> think there is one built with cygwin, but I never tried that...
>
I looked for something better than Cygwin, but it is hard to beat the price!

I am using Cygwin to connect to my Linux box for News and Mail. It works 
great! I wrote a batch file similar to the one created when cygwin x was 
setup that runs the Xwin -query ipaddress. I just click a shortcut icon from 
the w98 desktop and I get the xdm login for the Linux box. The linux box 
becomes a window on the w98. The only problem I have had is accidently 
closing the cygwin window instead of the linux app window.

VNC may be more elegant (http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/), but Cygwin is 
definitely worth a try before you buy a fancier Xserver for windows like 
winaxe or omni-x.

Rick


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