From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 14:43:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5A037B684 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:43:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1FMfY624527 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:41:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200102152241.f1FMfY624527@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cheap/free Xserver n32 for a unix-phobic administrator? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:56:32 CST." <14988.20624.163716.535654@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:41:34 -0500 From: hawk Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike mentioned, > Joel Bjork types: > > On 15-Feb-01 hawk wrote: > > I'm not sure what you want but if you want to run X-apps on a windowsbox > > over a network VNC works like a charm. You can tunnel it through SSH so > > it's possible to secure it very well. > I'll second the "not being sure". Other thing that might do the poorly > described job are webmin (in the ports tree) and PuTTY, a free > terminal emulator that connects to an ssh port on your system. Specifically, I need them to be able to run the copy of LyX on my box. There is a windows port of LyX, but it needs an xserver, cignus, etc. There are two students writing jointly with me, and I need to be able to edit with them-and I'm not switching these documents over to Word . . . hawk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message