On 03Nov2005 16:54, Gilboa Davara <gilboada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. If you really don't want to scare them off, running a rootless Cygwin/X server will let you pop up X client on their totally familiar Windows desktop. Roll a few icons that ssh to the Linux box and run the GUI app pointed back at their Windows PC - the X11 forward will do this for you. Or are you trying to entice them with a nice non-Windows desktop? -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
