Remote XWindow session

[James Knott]

Marc Lanctot wrote:
> On 22/04/09 10:09 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>>> Is it possible to set up a remote xwindow session? What I want to do is
>>> connect to a remote Linux box that has no video card, but I still want
>>> to be able to run a local KDE session controlling the remote Linux box
>>> in a rich GUI environment.
>>>
>>> Is this possible, and is this easy to setup?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Yes, that's one of the things Linux&  Unix have done for years, with X.
>> You can run a full desktop, using XDMCP or just individual apps, with
>> SSH and X forwading.  There's also stuff like VNC etc.
>>
>
> Rajinder,
>
> By the sounds of your message you probably want to follow what Lennart
> suggested. If you want to do that from a Windows box you'll have to
> install an implementation of X on Windows which you can find in Cygwin.
>

I find Xming is easier to configure.


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