From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 19 11:59:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA26376 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:59:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26327 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yFlSP-0000xu-00; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:58:29 +0200 Subject: Re: I am at a loss... In-Reply-To: from Richard Stanaford at "Mar 19, 98 02:11:45 pm" To: richard@cube3.erinet.com (Richard Stanaford) Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:58:29 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Stanaford wrote: > > The question dealt with the possibility of running X-Windows over > an Internet connection. I believe the jist of the solutions was to grab a > client program that can be run on, say, a Win95 box, and used to connect > to a remote X server. Did I dream that or just misunderstand? :-) I No, that's quite correct, though you might have some of the details a wee bit muddled... ;-) What you're looking for is an X _server_ that runs under win32. X-based applications (xterm, netscape, whatever...) are the clients. An X client relies on an X server to display its output in a neat little window, and it really doesn't care all that much whether the X server is sitting on the same host, or on a machine on another continent. That's the nature of the X beast. There's a free X server for win32 out there called MI/X. I'm not sure where to find it, but it's out there on the Web somewhere. There are several commercial offerings as well, e.g. Exceed (http://www.hummingbird.com/). -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message