hello James, You can use a free version of MicroImages X Server. The download link: http://orthanc.univap.br/stuff/win32/mix95.zip A new version (but paid) you can found here: http://www.microimages.com/mix/ []s, James B. Byrne escreveu:> An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a > MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, > I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- > Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying > no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few > shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in > the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered > before. > > Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this > software so rare and dear? > > Regards, > Jim > > -- > *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** > mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca > James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited > vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive > fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario > <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Marcelo Renan Becher Linux User: #296657 http://rootshell.be/~morgaux pMSN: morgaux at hotmail.com "apt-get anywhere!"
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a
MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However,
I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS-
Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying
no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few
shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in
the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered
before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this
software so rare and dear?
Regards,
Jim
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, James B. Byrne wrote:> An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a > MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, > I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- > Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying > no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few > shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in > the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered > before. > > Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this > software so rare and dear?cygwin.
Have you considered using VNC instead? I do this to just start an
xterm...from there I can run Mozilla or whatever.
Mike
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An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K
workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to
find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate
this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance
of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located
expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have
never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software
so rare and dear?
Regards,
Jim
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James B. Byrne wrote:> An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a > MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, > I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- > Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying > no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few > shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in > the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered > before. > > Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this > software so rare and dear? > > Regards, > JimHave you considered Co-linux? I have it running on XP and 2000 desktops. Basically it's a full Debian distro that runs inside Windows, I even installed KDE/IceWM/Gnome and used VNC viewer to show the GUI as a window in Windows. Worked great for me as a way of running forwarded X sessions over SSH. http://www.colinux.org/ Oh and it's free too. :-) rgds Franki
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:13 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:> > Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this > software so rare and dear?This is worth a check as well. Works very well. http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Kurt Bechstein | Unique Systems, Inc. System Administrator | 1446 S. Reynolds Rd. #313 Phone: (419) 861-3331 | Maumee, OH 43537 Email: kurt at uniqsys.com | http://www.uniqsys.com
On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:13, James B. Byrne wrote:> Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this > software so rare and dear?Cygwin/X. Of the solutions thus far put forth, none are X windows clients (VNC, while good, is still not an X windows client) except Cygwin. Setting up cygwin involves downloading the setup.exe program from www.cygwin.com, selecting to install the X server stuff (the ssh client is good, too, and works well), letting it download and install, and then putting a link to the startxwin.bat file either on your desktop or in Startup. It Just Works. The ssh tunneling needs the -Y command line option. There is a mode that lets you start up XDCMP processing in full-screen; there is an excellent howto on the Cygwin site. I'm using Cygwin here on a daily basis, and it works fine and was simple to set up. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>
2005-Jun-16 17:57 UTC
[CentOS] RE: X-Windows client for MS-Win2K
From: Mike Kercher <mike at CamaroSS.net>> Have you considered using VNC instead? I do this to just start an > xterm...from there I can run Mozilla or whatever.A nested X server is probably a better solution. Passing the native widgets over remote protocols is always going to be a better solution than using a dumb, pixel-by-pixel remote framebuffer. I.e., use RDP, X11, ICA, etc... when you have an option instead of pcAnywhere, VNC, etc... if you can. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org
I've actually been just dealing with this myself. Download the following: http://tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl/~maze/cygx.tar.bz2 (3.6MB uncompressed to 12MB) and put it somewhere (I keep it on a samba share on my linux server [\\TCS\CYGWIN] and start it up as \\TCS\CYGWIN\STARTX.BAT from windows clients from command line or run dialog). You'll need to edit the content of startx.bat to work in you're environment (i.e use a free drive letter proper samba path - or skip samba installation and install it locally) and you'll probably want to edit the Xwin command line as well (the -query tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl option and -ftp tcp/tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl:7100 options plus the polish keyboard layout should probably be customized. You might also want to disable the redirection of stdout to a log file (as I said I'm still working on this)). You'll also need to edit cygwin.reg to contain proper paths (\\\\TCS\\CYGWIN - note doubled backslashes as escapes to whatever works for you, can also be D:\\CYGWIN and the like). Now you need to configure your server to allow remote X access - to do this you need to allow remote XDMCP and XFS access - burn both through the firewall: -A INPUT -p tcp --dport xfs -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp --dport xdmcp -j ACCEPT probably limiting them (with -s) to only selected client networks. and configure the daemons to actually allow outside access... This is done by editing /etc/X11/fs/config # don't listen to TCP ports by default for security reasons #no-listen = tcp you want to comment out the no-listen so fonts are served. and you want to enable remote gdm access (/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf) DisallowTCP=false and possibly other options. And you want to add lines of the format gdm: client-ip/mask to your /etc/hosts.allow file. I think that's about it. Cheers, MaZe.
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