All you need to connect from Windows is an X server, which is the
graphical "canvas" that client applications running on the remote
machine use to draw and receieve input.  The X protocol is quite mature
and is an open protocol, so there's nothing that says that the clients
must be Linux or even Unix.

There are quite a few commercial X servers for Windows.  Xceed and X-Win
Pro are two that I've used.  I had the best results with X-Win Pro
several years ago... the product name changed to WinaXe, I believe. 
Google will help you find them.

A free X server can be installed with the Cygwin project, which is a
project to give Windows some of the software of Linux in a sort of
compatability layer.  If all this is new to you, you may want to tinker
with XWin Pro or Xceed first and then later try to use Cygwin/XFree86.

I'm not sure about anonymous access, however; I've never tried that.  I
assume that you could set up the display manager (GDM or KDM, the
software on the server that handles the logins) to allow anyone in. 
That would be a major security risk, though, so make sure you have a
really secure network.

-Todd



On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 20:30, Hersh Registrations wrote:
> Is there any way to log onto a Linux Terminal Server from a Windows
> machine? What I need to do is have my Windows Clients logon anonymously
> to a Linux Terminal Server and run applications.
> 
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