From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 17:39:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B9D37B401 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:39:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (f42.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19A943FCB for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:39:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crollins666@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:39:44 -0800 Received: from 216.19.22.118 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:39:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [216.19.22.118] X-Originating-Email: [crollins666@hotmail.com] From: "clayton rollins" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:39:44 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Mar 2003 01:39:44.0597 (UTC) FILETIME=[13348850:01C2F594] Subject: Re: running X from windows pc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 01:39:48 -0000 On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:38:32 -0600 "Chad Albert" wrote >Subject: Re: [notspam] Re: Running X from a windows PC >To: "freebsd-questions" >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 _________________________________________________________________