| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 16 Apr 2002 17:24:50 -0400 |
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:26:59PM -0400, Toby DiPasquale wrote: > Coming from a Win2K box to a UNIX box requires you to have XWin32 (a > Windows based X-server) to forward X to a PuTTY session. Unfortunately, > this product is no longer free, and that's about all I know about it (my > buddy used it, not me). Check it out online and see if it's worth it to > you... Hope this helps :) Fwiw, anything that implements an X server on a Windows machine will work, and there is other software that does so. We use "Atachmate Kea! X", which is also commercial, here, which seems to work just fine talking to a host with an open xdm--obviously not the same thing as forwarding X, but if you're going to the trouble of being an xdm client, you might as well implement a full X server, and I'm pretty sure Kea does. I seem to recall there having been a free Windows X server, but I may have been thinking of an evaluation or (gasp!) cracked copy of XWin32. (I never used it; I've never owned a copy of Windows anything.) I know there's a free one for Mac OS (don't recall the name off the top of my head, but I've got it on a CD-R of my PowerMac 7500 before I blew Mac OS 8 away on it and installed NetBSD/macppc), and Apple sells an X server called Mac X at a fairly reasonable price (their doing so may be a hold-over from the AUX days, and it may well be unsupported, but I'm pretty sure you can still find a copy). > P.S. You could try "export DISPLAY=":0.0"" in the PuTTY window (in bash) > and see if that works, but I doubt it. Worth a shot... I've got a feeling it won't. But if its docs claim otherwise, then PuTTY rocks even more than I thought it did. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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