IIRC X uses a different naming. The system running the software is the client,
the system displaying the software is the server. This is the opposite of other
network run services (ftp, http, telnet, ssh, etc...).
alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> Maybe I am confused about what is server and what is client. Let me be more clear on my end so that I am sure I understand the responses.
>
> I want to run a program on a Linux box, testing a piece of hardware connected to that Linux box. We then want to be able to remotely control that program on that Linux box from a computer running Windows 2000.
>
> My understanding of the terms means that the Linux box would be the X server and I need an X client on the Windows 2000 box. Correct?
>
> Possible solutions for an X client on the Windows 2000 box:
> -VNC
> -A commercial program like Exceed, X-Win32, HOBLink X11, etc.
> -CygWin (I did not know it could do this!)
>
> I will look at CynWin first.
>
> We did not want to use VNC thinking that it is a bandwidth hog. Maybe I am wrong on that point. Is VNC less or more of a bandwith eater than and X terminal server and a client?
>
> Alan
>
> On Tue, 07 May 2002 14:52:19 -0700 Kevin Brown <kevin_brown@qwest.net> wrote:
>
> I use Exceed as my X-server under Win2k on my network for the linux clients.
>
> alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> >
> > We want to setup a Linux box as an X-windows server and run the client accross the network on a Windows 2000 box.
> >
> > Pointers, instructions, HOWTOs welcome!
> >
> > Alan
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