On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:51, Jason Frank wrote: > cygwin+xfree86 port for cygwin over ssh > vnc
So just to elaborate a little on this since it isn't entirely transparent to someone used to the Windows paradigm. Linux (or more generally, systems using the X Windowing system) use a system whereby the piece of software that interacts with you (accepts input from keyboard and mouse, displays stuff on the screen) is distinct from the applications you are running. The part that does screen drawing etc is called an 'X server'. Your applications are called 'X clients', so named because it is a network system -- the clients make a network connection to the server and asks the server to draw stuff on the screen, send keystrokes back to it etc. In the normal case, both the client and the server run on the same computer (though it's completely transparent most of the time), but there's no reason not to separate them. That's how Xceed works - it's just an X server which happens to run on windows. It is expensive, but it's also very good and has some nifty features I've not found elsewhere. If you just want to start playing, the port of XFree86 to Windows is hard to beat. It does essentially the same thing. I think I installed it by grabbing the cygwin installer and ticking the "XFree86" box in the installer. It did the rest of the work for me. You configure your linux box to use gdm (or similar) to export displays to other computers (there's a GUI config tool to do this, but ask if you have problems, I realise I'm being brief), and then you basically just start the X server on your windows computer and you'll have a linux desktop right there on your Windows box inside a window. The other option is vnc - which is a nifty utility which essentially does the same thing. It's a thin line, but I would say the tools are such that it's easier to set things up with a Windows X server. The links: http://www.cygwin.com/xfree/ Googling for VNC yields two links these days, which is a bit of a surprise: This one is the one I remember: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ And this one I've never heard of but they claim to be the 'real' vnc: http://www.realvnc.com/ oh, btw, one advantage of vnc over straight X is that you can have a session which you can stop and start from wherever you are. That is, when you log out of the vnc client, the server keeps running in the background, and when you connect again you can pick up where you left off. It's worth reading up on all this, http://www.tldp.org/ is an excellent place to go to find out how to do all manner of stuff on Linux. I haven't been there in ages but http://linuxnewbie.org/ used to have some good articles which I found useful even after a few years of using Linux exclusively. HTH, James. > > > > > Louis Selvon wrote: > > >Hi: > > > >I'll be networking two PCs together at home. > > > >I have a hub to connect them via the Network cards. > > > >However I want to be able to control the other PC from only one, so that I do > >not need to use two monitors, keyboards, mouse etc .... > > > >Basically here is what I plan: > > > >Master PC: > >=========== > > > >OS Windows 2000 > > > >Slave PC: > >========== > > > >OS Windows 2000 + Red Hat Linux > > > >I want Master PC to boot slave Linux. I have heard of a Software called Exceed > >(but it's too expensive). > > > >Does anyone know a freeware or shareware that will allow me to boot up Linux > >from the other PC and have all the display, keys controls etc... controlled > >from the Master PC ? > > > >Louis. > > > > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
