Ok thanks - I'll investigate that after I return from my trip in two weeks.
Dennis
Sebastian Smith 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
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