[TriLUG] Remote Console Access to X-Windows

H Brett Bolen wingedlizard at nc.rr.com
Fri Nov 22 11:11:56 EST 2002


Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:58, Jaimie Livingston wrote:
>
>>The stated goal is for someone to be able to securely access servers in our
>>datacenters worldwide from remote clients (a laptop running Windows XP or
>>RHL 8.0) and be able to interactively launch and use X-Windows if desired
>>and for whatever reason. The reasons have not been given to me, so I can't
>>answer questions about why anyone would want to do this on a given server. 
>
>
>1. Install Cygwin on Windows


I thought of this too, and debated on whether to mention it.  since
ssh has x11 forwarding, you don't need vnc.  Of course you would 
need an x server.

of course with a rh client, you don't need cygwin....


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