Re: [PLUG] How do you run Linux apps across a LAN from Windows?

[gyoza@comcast.net]

I think you need an X server on the Windows box, or something line VNC.


Mike Leone wrote:
> Say I have a Gnome app on a Ubuntu server on my LAN. And I want to 
> access this app from Windows. I don't want to run the app on Windows, 
> using Cygwin or whatever; I want to connect to that Ubuntu server and 
> run that app from Windows, just as if I was starting up an app on a 
> Windows server.
>
> Using free software, since this project isn't big enough to justify 
> spending any money on, to buy software for the Windows desktops.
>
> How would you do that? I know how to run Windows apps in Linux 
> (locally, not across the LAN); I want to do the reverse - have an icon 
> on my Windows desktop, that starts up a Gnome app that is running on a 
> separate host on the LAN.
>
> My searching has been less than fruitful. If there's a detailed HOWTO 
> or something somewhere, I'd appreciate it if somebody could point me 
> at it.
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