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Re: X-WINDOWS and WINDOWS XP
- From: Brian Genisio <briangenisio at yahoo dot com>
- To: JayWWood at aol dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:42:07 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: X-WINDOWS and WINDOWS XP
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ has documentation to do it.
As long as you can reach your home machine's IP address from the Unix machine,
this will work....
1. Start the X server up in Windows
2. telnet into the Unix machine
3. Run xterm -display <yourIP>:0
This assumes the connection can be made. If your ISP has a firewall set up to
block it, you may be out of luck. It also assumes xterm is the program you
want to run, and you started your X server up with the default :0 display.
Good luck,
Brian
--- JayWWood@aol.com wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> Please send me any information you may have on installing and
> running X-Windows (or something very like it ) on a PC with Win XP .
>
> I particulary want to know if there might be potential difficulties
>
> in getting on to my ISP (dynamic IP address) , and then logging into my
> College machine (UNIX ).
> I can do this at present just with Win XP and telnet , but I would
>
> like to have something a bit like UNIX on my PC .
>
>
> Thanks ,
>
> Jim Wood
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