Rick Gatewood schrieb: > 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!
Why something better? What is it that bothers you about cygwin? > 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. So that would be great for my purposes. What's the catch? > 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. Is there something XFree cannot do what the others can? (Apart from surely having fancier interfaces) regards, Florian -- Florian Thiel - Medienzentrum Kassel Systembetreuung Internet- und Kommunikationstechnik Kasseler Schulen am Netz - http://www.medienzentrum-kassel.de ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
