From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 8: 3:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trill.hh.se (trill.hh.se [194.47.5.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CDA37B4EC for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 08:03:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gs177.gsten.hh.se (chip@L22-212.gsten.hh.se [194.47.16.177]) by trill.hh.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18819; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:03:01 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200102151549.f1FFnb621944@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:03:02 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Bjork To: hawk Subject: RE: cheap/free Xserver n32 for a unix-phobic administrator? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15-Feb-01 hawk wrote: > > The cost matters less than the ability to to assure a unix-phobic > campus administrator about security :) > > ALl it really needs to do is let a windows machine on the local > network run FreeBSD on my box. Before I ask them to buy one, > though, I need to see what others have found--I've had bad experiences > running Xservers on non-unix--MI/X on a mac redrew so much that many > programs were unusable, and the otehr main one (my mind is blanking at > the moment) worked fine on my former boss's NT box to access > alpha's, but was a nightmare with debian (worked ok with RH, I think). > > hawk > I'm not sure what you want but if you want to run X-apps on a windowsbox over a network VNC works like a charm. You can tunnel it through SSH so it's possible to secure it very well. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Joel Bjork Date: 15-Feb-01 Time: 17:03:02 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message