XFree86 over a network

I use Exceed as well. Runs great! Though it's an expensive program.
VNc is freeware that allows you to do the same, cept it needs a
server running on he *nix box and a client on the other. People swear
by it and it does it's job.

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Sonja Michelle L. Thomas
sonja@sdf.lonestar.org


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 10:08 PM
Subject: Re: XFree86 over a network


> I use a copy of Exceed that I got from ASU. Basically I setup the
> DISPLAY variable on the *nix machine to be the IP/FQDN of the
> windows machine and then any X app I run gets piped over the
> network to it.
>
> in bash:
> export DISPLAY=<ip>:0.0
>
> in csh:
> setenv DISPLAY <ip>:0.0
>
> I believe that is the correct syntax.
>
> Jeff Barker wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone tell me if it's possible to have X installed on a
> > server and run X in a client on Windows machines?
> >
> > If it is, what client would be used on Windows and how would I
> > configure X for that. X won't be run on the server at all, only
> > on a Windows 2k/XP box on the network.
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