Is there a way to run an X app on a Windows machine (via ssh)?

Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set it
up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote for Linux
to Visual Studio) 8-(

-Jeff

Op Thu, 13 May 2004 00:32:23 +0000, schreef Jeffrey Cunningham de volgende
woorden:

> Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set it
> up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote for Linux
> to Visual Studio) 8-(
>
> -Jeff

You can run an X-server for windows. At work we have Exceed, from
hummingbird I believe, but this is not free I think. Other possibilities:
see http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#x, of which cygwin is the most known I
guess. Afterwards: just run the X-server, and use ssh -X (or something
else with X-forwarding).

Dirk

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Jeffrey Cunningham wrote:
> Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set
> it up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote
> for Linux to Visual Studio) 8-(
>
> -Jeff
http://www.xlink.com/nfs_products/Om...i-X_Server.htm
http://www.starnet.com/products/
http://www.astec.co.jp/products/ENGLISH/ASTECX/
http://www.wrq.com/products/reflection/pc_x_server/
etc etc (from Google: "X Server" Windows XP).

I think there are some open-source alternatives out there as well.

On Thu, 13 May 2004 02:12:25 +0100, Alan Walker wrote:

> Jeffrey Cunningham wrote:
>> Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set
>> it up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote
>> for Linux to Visual Studio) 8-(
>>
>> -Jeff
> http://www.xlink.com/nfs_products/Om...i-X_Server.htm
> http://www.starnet.com/products/
> http://www.astec.co.jp/products/ENGLISH/ASTECX/
> http://www.wrq.com/products/reflection/pc_x_server/
> etc etc (from Google: "X Server" Windows XP).
>
> I think there are some open-source alternatives out there as well.

I can read ads. I was looking for personal recommendations of open source
alternatives. I should have been more clear.

-Jeff

On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:32:23 +0000, Jeffrey Cunningham wrote:

> Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set it
> up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote for Linux
> to Visual Studio) 8-(
>
> -Jeff

cygwin

I think that Slackware has some sort of linux on windows as well.

On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:32:23 +0000, Jeffrey Cunningham wrote:

> Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set it
> up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote for Linux
> to Visual Studio) 8-(

I would use VNC. Technically the X server is running on the Linux side but
the display is on the Windows machine, either in a browser window (my
preference) or the VNC viewer (which you have to install, which is why I
prefer the browser, Windows' reliability appears to be inversely
proportional to the amount of software installed).

See http://www.realvnc.com/. You can run VNC over an ssh tunnel if you
need encryption: http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html.
Use putty - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ - as the
Windows ssh client, it has all the tunnelling options.

VNC is included in most Linux distros, and if you use the browser client
you don't need any Windows software at all, unless you need putty for the
ssh. Putty is a very "benign" Windows program - no installer, no DLLs,
just one .exe.

Regards, Ian

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Ian Northeast wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:32:23 +0000, Jeffrey Cunningham wrote:
>
> > Not my choice - believe me. If there's a way to do this I need to set it
> > up for a couple users (or I will have to port some codes I wrote for Linux
> > to Visual Studio) 8-(
>
> I would use VNC. Technically the X server is running on the Linux side but
> the display is on the Windows machine, either in a browser window (my
> preference) or the VNC viewer (which you have to install, which is why I
> prefer the browser, Windows' reliability appears to be inversely
> proportional to the amount of software installed).
>
> See http://www.realvnc.com/. You can run VNC over an ssh tunnel if you
> need encryption: http://www.uk.research.att.com/archive/vnc/sshvnc.html.
> Use putty - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ - as the
> Windows ssh client, it has all the tunnelling options.
>
> VNC is included in most Linux distros, and if you use the browser client
> you don't need any Windows software at all, unless you need putty for the
> ssh. Putty is a very "benign" Windows program - no installer, no DLLs,
> just one .exe.
>
> Regards, Ian
>
>
I vote for Cygwin. It's free, and it works well.

Josh Beck