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[Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,

On Thursday 01 January 1970 1:00 am, Chris Howells wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With an X server running on a Win32 machine, it's possible to run X
> applications (e.g. on Linux) and have them sent over the network to appear
> on the Win32 machine.
>
> However, has anybody tried the other way around -- having Windows
> applications appearing on a Linux desktop, the Windows applications all
> being run through a specific Windows (NT) based application server?

What do you mean by application server?  Do you mean in the 
Citrix/thin-client way, or do you just mean an NT box running an application.

If you mean the former, then I believe that there are Linux Ctrix clients as 
well as for other thin-client methods.  I've never looked at this myself as 
we don't run NT (except to control a network aware photocopier that never 
sees the network).

If you mean the latter then have a look at VNC.  VNC is a free cross-platform 
remote-access tool ala PC Anywhere.  I personally use this from my Linux 
workstation to remotely support 100+ Win9x PC's over two sites.

>
> Cheers,
> Chris Howells

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Gary Stainburn
 
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