From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 13:56:36 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 D3B6E37B491 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 82555 invoked by uid 100); 15 Feb 2001 21:56:32 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14988.20624.163716.535654@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:56:32 -0600 To: Joel Bjork , hawk Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cheap/free Xserver n32 for a unix-phobic administrator? In-Reply-To: <13318546@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 Joel Bjork types: > On 15-Feb-01 hawk wrote: > > 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). > 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. I'll second the "not being sure". Other thing that might do the poorly described job are webmin (in the ports tree) and PuTTY, a free terminal emulator that connects to an ssh port on your system. 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