[TriLUG] Looking for Remote access to Unix boxes via Wintel

[burnett at pobox.com]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Jon Carnes wrote:

> We want Hummingbird, but we aren't going to pay that much... so anyone have
> a suggestion for a freeware alternative?

Have you looked at VNC as an alternative? It's what I used when I didn't 
want to pay for Hummingbird either. It's free, runs almost anywhere as a 
client or server (including Mac OS 8 and 9), and can be set up to tunnel 
through ssh. 

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

best,
Steve
burnett at pobox.com


> 
> For the uninitiated - Hummingbird is a Xserver for Wintel boxes (and by
> "server" I mean you run it at the Wintel box and attach to the Unix box and
> can get GUI access, similar to ssh but GUI).
> 
> Cygwin sort of does this, but is limited in that it gives you the whole
> desktop rather than simply a GUI connection.  I'm sure Cygwin will be able
> to do this in the future (since its docs tout this functionality), but it
> ain't there yet.  Please correct me if I am wrong!
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jon
> 
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