On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Gary Smith wrote: > > > What is the process to run a XTerminal client on a windows 95 / 98 machine? > > What software do I need to set up to do this? > > > > All windows 95 /98 clients have s3 Virge identical to the server if this > > helps. > > There are a variety of commercial X servers on the market. To do what > you're asking, you can install one of them, or you can check out VNC from > Oracle: It's "ORL" not Oracle. ;-) > http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ > > While VNC won't let you run an xterm per se, it *will* allow you to open > up an entire "desktop" session on the remote X machine and run as many > xterms as you'd like. Furthermore, the data transmission compression > algorithms in VNC are pretty snazzy, so you get pretty good performance. Indeed. From a 386-33 linux box at home across a 14.4 modem I was able to control a half dozen NT servers and performance was acceptable. > Another nifty thing about VNC is that it works moth ways: You can run a > UNIX desktop on your windows computer, but you can also control an NT > machine from a Linux box, similarly to PC-Anywhere. > > And it's free ;-) Better than free, GPLed! Regards, Eric
