From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 20:57:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07CFA37B71D for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:57:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 9237 invoked by uid 100); 31 Mar 2001 04:57:12 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15045.25512.354839.673635@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:57:12 -0600 To: Doug Denault Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform In-Reply-To: <131370350@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Denault types: > There is also a free windows based solution compriable to this. CMU has a > free package called NiftyTelnet. It supports Kerberos v.4 and there is an > add-on to support ssh. Do either NiftyTelnet or those Windows based solutions let you display X applications on a Windows box? On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Raymond Law types: > > > I know I can use xhost to display the GUI on a local machine from a > > > remote machine. But how can I display X on a windoz box? > > > > Others have mentioned installing a X server on Windows, and I don't > > know of any non-commercial solution. > > > > A second alternative is to install a vnc server on your Unix system > > (it's in the ports), and the viewer on Windows. This gives you an X > > session in a window on the Windows box, which may be sufficient, and > > both are free. > > > > For the truly perverse, you can also install the viewer on a Palm. > > > > > -- > > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message