On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 14:01, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > If email is the only thing you want to share, an IMAP server is > > the way to go. If the existing server where you get email > > handles IMAP, just point accounts on both machines there. If > > not, set up fetchmail to grab it via pop and deliver on a > > machine that you control that runs an IMAP server. Then > > you can configure accounts on any number of machines to see > > the same mailbox using your choice of programs. These > > programs will also move messages that have been received via > > pop back into an IMAP inbox or folder, so you can use one > > as an exchange point for several machines. > > > > On the other hand, if you really want to run arbitrary X > > programs remotely, you can do that by installing the free > > Cygwin package on the windows box if you have good bandwidth > > or for better performance on slow links try freenx and the > > nxclient from www.nomachine.com. > > > I can't install anything on the machines. The best I can do is a Java > spplet running in a web browser, that will most likely be IE (Portable > Firefox does not support Java, and very few machines have Firefox). If > I can forward X to a Java applet in a browser, that would be great. I > will only be on any given machine for a few hours at most, and the > next day I will be on another completly different machine. If everyone is in the same shape, maybe you can get Cygwin X installed on all of them. Or if they are XP or have the windows terminal client installed you might run a remote windows desktop to access your own programs. > I read through the weirdX site, but I'm still not clear- can I run it > in a browser? No mention of a browser in the faqs. It's going to be a big applet download to get started even if it works. Webmail is probably a better approach if you are really mobile. If you have a spare machine at your disposal, install SME server for an instant IMAP/webmail server (http://www.contribs.com - the pre-release version 7 should be OK). Or, set up a free gmail account and forward everything there if you don't want to manage the server. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
