RE: OT: Any Red hat heads here?

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxx>]

Tony,

www.cygwin.com/xfree and follow the links.

It's possible to configure xdm (or gdm depends on your server config) to
allow you to present your normal server GUI logon and whole X display as a
window on your Windows desktop, you can also (from memory) run your local X
setup integrated with Windows such that each X application window sits on
your Windows desktop and you can then have Windows apps & X apps
sitting
side by side.

You'll need to check the documentation as I've trashed my setup and don't
yet have time to restore it :-)

Works well once you get it going though.

Alternatively if you wanted to run Terminal Services, I do remember seeing
an RDP server for Linux, try Google.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Butler [mailto:tony@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:25 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx; Alex Monaghan
> Cc: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: Any Red hat heads here?
>
>
> Quoting Alex Monaghan <ha@xxxxxxx>:
> > If you're wanting something quire simple and to "hide"
most of the
> > *nix type bits, then look at webmin (probably got it as an
> option to
> > install or it may be installed already try
> http://servername:10000).
> > This gives you a "nice" web
> control panel.
>
> Well RH does seem to do that - nothing I have done (which
> admittedly ain't a
> lot) has been thru X.  Oh, except I did have to change my
> hsotname manually in
> some file or other coz RH didn't seem to do it for me -
> though the thing that
> go upset did tell me where to look for it....
>
> > Alternatively run an X environment on your main PC, there's
> a Windows
> > version of XFree86 available now and see your desktop etc... As
you
> > would on the server.
>
> That's what I thought I could do originally - I vaguely
> remember about X being
> a client-server protocol except the display is the server not
> the client or
> some such reversal of whatever it is you normally expect.
> I googled about a bit and found various paid for X servers to
> run under
> windoze, and managed to get hold of a trial of something (I
> forget what), but
> that seemed to want to host the whole lot on the windoze box
> - I couldn't get
> to the linux one, but I could run xclock and a few other kack
> apps from a
> client instance on the windows box, so I gave up on that.
> Do you know where I would get a FREE implementation of the X
> display server
> only, to run under windoze, which is easy to configure?
>
> cheers,
>
> T.
>
>