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Re: displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?


Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

Michael Uman schrieb:

Hello,

I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on your windows box, you can log into it from your Linux VNC client and view your Windows desktop... This works in both directions {you can run VNC server on Linux and log into it from Windows}....

This is really not an option, as VNC as you said only allows viewing "local desktop", so it's one client only. I want multi user (much like Terminal Server), without the pockets full of money for additional connections.

To achieve this use either inetd (and telnet, rsh) or sshd and use Cygwin's excellent command line interface. You don't need notepad - vi will do much better.


Ah but you say "There are Windows apps that only run in GUI mode and I need to run them"? Yes that's a bummer and one of the things that Unix/Linux users and admin rail about Windows over and over. Now you understand why. Had it been just a Unix/Linux environment this would not be a problem nor issue. And X Windows handled the "running a GUI app remotely using the window system to display locally" long ago. Sigh. When will Windows users learn...

Still you can get a lot (and I mean a lot) of milage out of Cygwin and the command line - you just can't everything.
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