I've had pretty good results with Cygwin/X on Windows connecting to a UNIX machine on my local LAN. The performance of cygwin has improved a lot lately; it's not as plauged as it used to be.
For a slower network link, FreeNX is awesome, but quite a challenge to set up on some servers. I had problems compiling it on debian as well as finding working packages for debian. However, I was able to install it fairly easily on RedHat Enterprise, so I would hope Fedora Core might be as easy. There's many resources online for help with FreeNX, definitely worth checking it out if you've got the time. Grant On 5/8/06, Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eggs-actly. I've also tried tightvnc. It was a pretty brainless setup. - Sebastian On Mon, 8 May 2006, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > FreeNX? Good times... > > http://freenx.berlios.de/ > > On 5/8/06, Sebastian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I have managed to configure my router and firewalls to allow me to ssh >> > into my >> > office PC from outside the office. I get a nice terminal window that >> > allows me >> > to do most of the command line things you'd expect. Unfortunately I >> > also need to >> > be able to run X Windows to access certain things that require a GUI. >> > >> > So far I have not been able to figure out how to do that on a M$ box. >> > >> > I can run PUTTY and get in just fine but I have not been able to figure >> > out how >> > to run X. And yes I did enable X11 Forwarding inside of PUTTY. But I >> > seem to still >> > be missing something. >> > >> > When I try running startx I get message of "User not authorized" which >> > doesn't make sense. >> > >> > even xterm gives me message of Can't open display. >> > >> > I've tried resetting the DISPLAY variable but then the cursor just sits >> > blinking at me. >> > >> >> Cygwin may be able to do what you require, but it will be _slow_. Not >> just slow due to Cygwin, X is bulky and doesn't forward over the Internet >> well. I suggest that you investigate a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) >> solution. There are several open source, cross platform solutions on the >> market. Some can be run with reasonable performance over a dialup >> connection. Let me know if you need more info. I'd be happy to research >> the topic more. >> >> - Sebastian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> RLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug >> > > > > -- > If UNIX doesn't have the solution you have the wrong problem. > UNIX is simple, but it takes a genius to understand it's simplicity. > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
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