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Re: Running GUI apps via SSHD and Cygwin X?
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Running GUI apps via SSHD and Cygwin X?
- From: "Tim Koenig" <grey_hat at lycos dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:28:13 +0100
- Cc: "Scott Ehrlich" <scott at ai dot mit dot edu>
- Organization: Lycos Mail (http://mail.lycos.com:80)
- Reply-To: grey_hat at lycos dot com
>I have a remote Windows 2000 box I want to run GUI apps from (such as
>Netscape, UsrMgr, and anything else) and onto which I have successfully
>installed SSHD.
>
>From the source machine with X capabilities, once I ssh in and send the
>display back my way, how can I run the GUI app?
As others have said, this is not possible, and you need other software to accomplish that task with normal Win32-applications.
The most common solution is Symantec's PCAnywhere (commercial software), a free, but less powerful alternative could be VNC (see http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ ). Both use a completely different technique than X and are (usually) not as fast.
A more sophisticated solution could be Microsoft's Windows NT Terminal Server.
I just wanted to point you into the right direction, please don't reply to the list.
- Tim
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