From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 7:12:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pemaquid.safeport.com (pemaquid.safeport.com [204.156.12.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6E337B719 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by pemaquid.safeport.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2VFCEX51243; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:12:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: pemaquid.safeport.com: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:12:14 -0500 (EST) From: To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform In-Reply-To: <15045.25512.354839.673635@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mea culpa Nah just telnet; I realized that was not the intent of the question after I sent the post. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. > _____ Douglas Denault doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-469-8766 Fax: 301-469-0601 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message