From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 30 6:55:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844C237B725 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2UEtaD41189 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:55:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:55:36 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Displaying X in Windows platform In-Reply-To: <15044.34500.749551.948609@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 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. 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