An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
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hello James,
You can use a free version of MicroImages X Server.
The download link: http://orthanc.univap.br/stuff/win32/mix95.zip
A new version (but paid) you can found here: http://www.microimages.com/mix/
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James B. Byrne escreveu:
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
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On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 10:34, Marcelo Renan Becher wrote:
hello James,
You can use a free version of MicroImages X Server.
The download link: http://orthanc.univap.br/stuff/win32/mix95.zip
A new version (but paid) you can found here: http://www.microimages.com/mix/
The current version of the free Cygwin server works pretty well. A few years ago I might have used this one instead. Now for running a few remote apps it works nicely to (from a Cygwin bash prompt): export DISPLAY=:0 Xwin -multiwindow & ssh -X remote_server ..login, start programs... Each X progam started will open it's own window that pretty much acts like a native MS window.
If you are going to run many applications from the same remote host you might want to enable XDMCP logins and: Xwin -query remote_server and run the whole desktop remotely.
Some people run a local window manager like windowmaker, but I'm not quite sure why.
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, James B. Byrne wrote:
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
cygwin.
I use xming (a mingw port of the cygwinX client) ... it's a stand-alone executable.
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming
Regards, Paul
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:15 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, James B. Byrne wrote:
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
cygwin.
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Have you considered using VNC instead? I do this to just start an xterm...from there I can run Mozilla or whatever.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:14 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] X-Windows client for MS-Win2K
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
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Cygwin is nice, but it takes a little bit effert to set up.
You could try FreeNX instead. It's also in the CentOS repositories
# yum install nx freenx
Install NX Viewer from http://nomachine.com
# copy ~nx/.ssh/client_id_dsa.key to c:\program files\NX Viewer\Share (or whereever you installed the client)
Then you'll have a nice and easy way to access X sessions.
(There is a nice article at http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ )
-- sukru
Mike Kercher wrote:
Have you considered using VNC instead? I do this to just start an xterm...from there I can run Mozilla or whatever.
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:14 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] X-Windows client for MS-Win2K
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
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On 6/16/05, Sukru TIKVES sukru@cs.hacettepe.edu.tr wrote:
Cygwin is nice, but it takes a little bit effert to set up.
If you can follow instructions and have a handful of tuits, Cygwin is a piece of cake to install. If you are "my mom" level user, maybe it's a little harder. People on this list generally have a handful of tuits.
You could try FreeNX instead. It's also in the CentOS repositories
FreeNX seems like a very good idea. Thanks for this information on setting it up.
Greg
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:23 +0300, Sukru TIKVES wrote:
Cygwin is nice, but it takes a little bit effert to set up.
You could try FreeNX instead. It's also in the CentOS repositories
# yum install nx freenx
Install NX Viewer from http://nomachine.com
# copy ~nx/.ssh/client_id_dsa.key to c:\program files\NX Viewer\Share (or whereever you installed the client)
Then you'll have a nice and easy way to access X sessions.
(There is a nice article at http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ )
-- sukru
I agree ... nx and freenx on the CentOS server and the NX viewer from nomachine.com on the windows machine should allow you to open a xsession on the server. It is much easier to set up than anything else mentioned.
BUT ... using Cygwin is more flexible as it will allow you to run Linux on the windows box as well as open an X session on the CentOS box.
If you only need the functionality you asked for then nx/freenx is the easiest solution.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 12:14 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] X-Windows client for MS-Win2K
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:41 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
BUT ... using Cygwin is more flexible as it will allow you to run Linux on the windows box
Linux apps, for the most part yes, after recompiling. Linux proper, no.
James B. Byrne wrote:
An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration fees in the $90-100 range, which is something I have never encountered before.
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Regards, Jim
Have you considered Co-linux?
I have it running on XP and 2000 desktops.
Basically it's a full Debian distro that runs inside Windows, I even installed KDE/IceWM/Gnome and used VNC viewer to show the GUI as a window in Windows. Worked great for me as a way of running forwarded X sessions over SSH.
Oh and it's free too. :-)
rgds
Franki
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:13 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
This is worth a check as well. Works very well.
On Thursday 16 June 2005 13:13, James B. Byrne wrote:
Is there a free X-Windows client for Microsoft OS's? Why is this software so rare and dear?
Cygwin/X. Of the solutions thus far put forth, none are X windows clients (VNC, while good, is still not an X windows client) except Cygwin.
Setting up cygwin involves downloading the setup.exe program from www.cygwin.com, selecting to install the X server stuff (the ssh client is good, too, and works well), letting it download and install, and then putting a link to the startxwin.bat file either on your desktop or in Startup. It Just Works. The ssh tunneling needs the -Y command line option. There is a mode that lets you start up XDCMP processing in full-screen; there is an excellent howto on the Cygwin site.
I'm using Cygwin here on a daily basis, and it works fine and was simple to set up.
I've actually been just dealing with this myself.
Download the following:
http://tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl/~maze/cygx.tar.bz2
(3.6MB uncompressed to 12MB)
and put it somewhere (I keep it on a samba share on my linux server [\TCS\CYGWIN] and start it up as \TCS\CYGWIN\STARTX.BAT from windows clients from command line or run dialog).
You'll need to edit the content of startx.bat to work in you're environment (i.e use a free drive letter proper samba path - or skip samba installation and install it locally) and you'll probably want to edit the Xwin command line as well (the -query tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl option and -ftp tcp/tcs.ii.uj.edu.pl:7100 options plus the polish keyboard layout should probably be customized. You might also want to disable the redirection of stdout to a log file (as I said I'm still working on this)).
You'll also need to edit cygwin.reg to contain proper paths (\\TCS\CYGWIN - note doubled backslashes as escapes to whatever works for you, can also be D:\CYGWIN and the like).
Now you need to configure your server to allow remote X access - to do this you need to allow remote XDMCP and XFS access - burn both through the firewall: -A INPUT -p tcp --dport xfs -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp --dport xdmcp -j ACCEPT probably limiting them (with -s) to only selected client networks. and configure the daemons to actually allow outside access... This is done by editing /etc/X11/fs/config
# don't listen to TCP ports by default for security reasons #no-listen = tcp
you want to comment out the no-listen so fonts are served.
and you want to enable remote gdm access (/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf) DisallowTCP=false and possibly other options.
And you want to add lines of the format
gdm: client-ip/mask
to your /etc/hosts.allow file.
I think that's about it.
Cheers, MaZe.
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