Re: [Sheflug] X server for windows

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> Hi all,
> I haven't been able to find any suggestion of it being free for academics
> *sniff* (and I believe it is expensive) so
> more cheap beer suggestions please :)
> 
> atb
> 
> Martin
> 


VNC :)

VNC is a very nice program that allows you to view a remote Windows or X 
desktop. Everything runs on the server, unlike say an Exceed session, so you 
can shut the viewer down head to another machine and reopen it as you left 
it. This isn't possible with Exceed and other "proper" PC/Win32 X servers as 
you shut your X session down, and that kills all the clients connected to the 
server.

VNC works by running the X session on the machine you have, and you have a 
small viwer (it's about 150k if memory serves on win32) that you use to 
connect to VNC on the server. You now have your X session :) VNC is also 
rather portable with servers for win32 and mac and viewers for Java, Win32, 
Mac, Palm, linux, Unix, you name it.

And it's free and has source code available.

You can also run the viewer through an SSH tunnel to encrypt the entire 
session if you want :)

See: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ for more info....it's very nice :)

Chris...

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