On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 08:54, Gilboa Davara wrote: > I'm trying to ease the pain of using Linux. > If I choose the tunnel-over-SSH with X-forwarding option, the first > Windows they'll see will be an empty terminal window instead of looking > at a full-blow-Windows-like UI. > I really don't want to scare them off. There are several choices, the nicest at the moment probably being freenx on the Linux side and the windows nxclient which is a free download from http://www.nomachine.com. Be sure you find all of the setup instructions because at least some of the freenx packages generate a unique key for the initial login that must be installed on each client (it uses ssh as the nx user for the initial connection to authenticate as the actual user). Basically this is a proxy X connection but faster and more efficient than VNC. You can also run Cygwin X on the windows side, and either run the full Linux desktop from Linux by enabling XDCMP (run gdmconfig) and starting X with 'Xwin -query server', or you can run individual apps in what look like individual MS windows by using (from a cygwin bash shell): export DISPLAY=:0 Xwin -multiwindow & ssh -Y user@server log in, start program by typing its name window should open on local desktop If you set up passwordless ssh, you can script some or all of this, but it is only worth doing if you want the users to run some specific apps with the rest of the system hidden. You can also use putty on the windows side instead of cygwin ssh if you set up X forwarding in the 'tunnels' dialog. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
