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Date:      Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:22:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Eric Humphries <efk@totalsmackdown.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: x question
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212060921510.7616-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <200212052014.36843.efk@totalsmackdown.net>

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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Eric Humphries wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:14:36 -0600
> From: Eric Humphries <efk@totalsmackdown.net>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: x question
> 
> > What you need to do is run an X server on the windows machine, then
> > set the DISPLAY environment variable on the freebsd box to something
> > like "windowsbox:0.0" (or tunnel it through ssh).  The only x server
> > for windows I know of is eXcursion, but there may be others.
> 
> No, there are several. One I use at work is WinaXe. But again it comes down to 
> personal preferance.
> 
> efk
> 

You could also use VNC. We use it extensively at work to share displays 
between win32, Linux and AIX boxes.

/usr/ports/net/vnc

#  John Bleichert 
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