Remote X?
Jhair Tocancipa Triana
jhair.tocancipa at gmail.com
Sun Mar 26 18:11:44 UTC 2006
Gromitigo writes:
> Is there a way to view the desktop over the network like VNC?
> I'm wanting to set up a ubuntu server but it won't have a monitor,
> keyboard, etc.
> The maching I'll be using to connect from is running WinXP.
You can install the Cygwin version of the X server on your Windows XP
box[1].
Then with ssh (also available in Cygwin), you can start any graphical
application installed on your remote server with:
ssh -X <login>@<machine> <X application>
My own experience is that VNC is way slower than running a Cygwin
server locally. VNC is already integrated in Dapper
(System->Preferences->Remote Desktop) though.
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[1] http://x.cygwin.com/
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--Jhair
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