Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X? Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:35:51 -0700 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <42AF2A0E.2050804@mch.one.pl> <1118779342.30762.1.camel@muman-pc> <42AF4CA6.9070503@mch.one.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) In-Reply-To: <42AF4CA6.9070503@mch.one.pl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Michael Uman schrieb: > >> Hello, >> >> I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on >> your windows box, you can log into it from your Linux VNC client and >> view your Windows desktop... This works in both directions {you can >> run VNC server on Linux and log into it from Windows}.... > > This is really not an option, as VNC as you said only allows viewing > "local desktop", so it's one client only. I want multi user (much like > Terminal Server), without the pockets full of money for additional > connections. To achieve this use either inetd (and telnet, rsh) or sshd and use Cygwin's excellent command line interface. You don't need notepad - vi will do much better. Ah but you say "There are Windows apps that only run in GUI mode and I need to run them"? Yes that's a bummer and one of the things that Unix/Linux users and admin rail about Windows over and over. Now you understand why. Had it been just a Unix/Linux environment this would not be a problem nor issue. And X Windows handled the "running a GUI app remotely using the window system to display locally" long ago. Sigh. When will Windows users learn... Still you can get a lot (and I mean a lot) of milage out of Cygwin and the command line - you just can't everything. -- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/