Running Gnome app across the LAN from Windows

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:38:22 +0100
JJL <buggerone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 2007/1/16, Mike Leone <turgon at mike-leone.com>:
> >
> > Since we already use UltraVNC to control Windows boxes, it's easier to
> > just
> > install one copy of VNC on the Ubuntu box, than go through a complicated
> > configuration of x.cygwin on multiple windows boxes, which I didn't want
> > to
> > do (and x.cygwin doesn't look to have been updated in well over a year,
> > anyway - "We are currently searching for a new maintainer and developers.
> > 2005-08-23" ).
> 
> 
> If you're afraid of Cygwin/X (I am) you can take a look at Xming
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming
> A XWindow server for windows, smaller and much more easy to
> install/configure than Cygwin/X
> And it's maintained
> 
> Regards
> JJL

Now that was a link I hadn't seen yet....very nice. :-)

Might just be the solution I've been looking for i.e. my savvy windows acquaintances have already got cygwin running ....it's the non-savvy ones that I want to grant "easy" access.

Hope it's as easy as it looks and that it runs over "ssh".

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Good luck,
HarM.