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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:57:12 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Displaying X in Windows platform
Message-ID:  <15045.25512.354839.673635@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <131370350@toto.iv>

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Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> 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?

	<mike

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> > Raymond Law <rlaw@vt.edu> 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
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