Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:39:44 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: running X from windows pc Message-ID: <F42gnNd8uEiop8s06qK000034e9@hotmail.com>
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:38:32 -0600 "Chad Albert" <chadalbert@mchsi.com> wrote >Subject: Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC >To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> >Message-ID: <00c201c2f57a$c4876ce0$e8b41595@SPGCALBERT> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >I believe there is an X server available in Cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ >Otherwise, here is a link to some instructions and a free version of >Microimage. >http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue5/m5xserver1.html > > > > > On 28-Mar-2003 Pierrick Brossin wrote: > > > Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > > > > > >> You will need something like Hummingbird Exceed or > > >> X-win32 to access the Xclient (which is running on your freebsd >server) > > > > > > Do you know any free software to do display exporting on Windows ? > > > > > > > A few years back a company called 'Microimage' used to offer a free > > MS-Windows X-Client. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Don Read dread@texas.net Just wanted to say that I have used the cygwin setup to do this; it's pretty easy. Just establish a ssh X session (ssh -X), then launch an xterm. (though, you'll need to setup some things for ssh first. There's a variety of suggested methods for this. A good overview is available at http://www.cs.odu.edu/~cs252/unix/xwin.html#xx__1_5 ) Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________
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