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Re: Windows based app.server
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: Chris Howells <chrish at gmx dot co dot uk>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 06:12:27 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Windows based app.server
I have thought of the same idea... There is a little project in the works,
called xwinx (www.xwinx.org), which is like VNC, but takes the entire desktop
through the X protocol. (It doesnt require a VNC client, only an X server)
I have looked at the code, and for fun, poked at it a bit. I have gotten it to
display a single window, instead of a full desktop. Possibly, this type of
idea could be extended, and wrapped in a nice little spawining script, where if
you wanted to run something... say MS Word, you could ship MS Word across your
network to your X server.
Of course, this means some coding to get it to work, and may not be extremely
feasable, but it could be more of what you are looking for.
Brian
--- Chris Howells <chrish@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
> With an X server running on a Win32 machine, it's possible to run X
> applications (e.g. on Linux) and have them sent over the network to appear
> on the Win32 machine.
>
> However, has anybody tried the other way around -- having Windows
> applications appearing on a Linux desktop, the Windows applications all
> being run through a specific Windows (NT) based application server?
>
> For example, imagine a network running almost entirely Linux, but needing
> to run a few legacy Windows applications. What I would like is for the user
> (sitting in front of Linux box with X) to be able to click on an icon for a
> Windows application, causing the application to start running on a Windows
> (NT) based application server. The program would entirely run on the
> Windows server, but the screen output would be sent over the network so it
> could be controlled by the user sitting on their Linux/X machine.
>
> I'm just wondering if this is possible?
>
> Many thanks,
> Chris Howells
>
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