>If you just want to start playing, the port of XFree86 to Windows is hard to beat. It does essentially the same thing.
Louis> Thanks for a detailed explanation. Ok Now as I understand I install XFREE86 on my Master PC running windows 2000. I am downloading cgywin at the quoted url. I am letting it download all the stuff. I see that Xfree86 is there as well from the install package. >I think I installed it by grabbing the cygwin installer and ticking the "XFree86" box in the installer. It did the rest of the work for me. You configure your linux box to use gdm (or similar) to export displays to other computers (there's a GUI config tool to do this, but ask if you have problems, I realise I'm being brief), and then you basically just start the X server on your windows computer and you'll have a linux desktop right there on your Windows box inside a window. Louis> I am confused here. Once Linux is installed on the slave PC. What's the tool I use to configure the Linux box to export displays. Now if I understand above once I start the X server on the Master PC running Windows 2000 and see this Linux desktop right there, and I click on it will this connect to Linux on the Slave PC ? >The other option is vnc - which is a nifty utility which essentially does the same thing. It's a thin line, but I would say the tools are such that it's easier to set things up with a Windows X server. Louis> I downloaded VNC before, but could not get it to work properly. So I gave up with it. Any I have connected all PCs to the hub, and turned them all on. I am in windows in both of them, what do I do to even see if I can access the drives from the other PC, or test that the networking is ok ? I am new at these networking stuff so I may ask really basic stuff. Louis. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
