Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[ariggins@xxxxxxxx (Alan Riggins)]

You  might take a look at x-win32 available free at www.starnet.com.  The demo
version limits your connection to two hours at a time, but this is no real
hardship as you can reconnect.

I used it extensively to work on a Sun server from my home pc before I got SuSE
linux.   The configuration is really easy; no need to run xhost +IP or setenv.

Tony Schlemmer wrote:

> I was going to try that server when I got a chance. A couple of items
> come to mind with regard to X in general. These were the two most common
> problems I've seen users experience.
>
> 1) Did run the xhost problem to enable X connections your Linux box?
>
> Something like "xhost +<hostname>" or simply "xhost +" to allow any
> client to connect to your SuSE box.
>
> 2) Do you need to set a DISPLAY environment variable so the X server on
> your SuSE box knows where to send X packets to when your using your
> Windows client? Something like so for bash:
>
> DISPLAY=<hostname>:0.0
> export DISPLAY
>
> csh:
>
> setenv DISPLAY <hostname>:0.0
>
> Substitute <hostname> for whatever is appropriate for your environment.
>
> Brian Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I downloaded the MiX X-Server for Windows and am now trying to connect to my
> > SuSE Linux X-Server, but can't seem to figure it out. I followed the
> > instructions for the MiX setup but it doesn't connect. It just comes up with
> > it's default Window Manager.
> >
> > Has anybody experience with this software, and if they got it going can they
> > share their secrets?
> >
> > I basically want to use a free version of an X-Server for Windows, so that I
> > can do remote management from my Windows machine and the MiX server allowed
> > me this luxury (although I don't call working under Windows a luxury). Is
> > there any other X-Servers for Windows that come as free? (I guess I get what
> > I paid for if it doesn't work! ;-) ).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Brian Armstrong.
> >
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