[NTLUG:Discuss] xwindow / xterminal

Greg Edwards greg at nas-inet.com
Fri Nov 13 15:19:04 CST 2009


Richard wrote:
> What is the best way to allow windows users to administer an opensuse 
> 11.0 server from their MS Windows clients?  I know there is VNC 
> available, but VNC can be clunky at times.  There is also the VNC issue 
> of user authentication.
> 
> What about running xwindow on a win32 client?  What of cgywinx?   What 
> about setting up an xterminal client? (or is xterminal merely a term to 
> imply how one uses cgywinx?
> 

I like Xming on MS Windows running XDMCP services on Linux for remote 
XWindow sessions.  Xming runs through ssh via putty.

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