Hi Derek, all, You're confusing me now. What do you mean by being able to run apps locally and remotely? I have a number of windows users who use VNCview to access a Linux box connecting to larry:50 which then gives them a kdm logon. What is the difference (apart from the actual underlying network protocol) between that and me connecting using X-Win32 from one of my windows boxes? Gary On Wednesday 05 September 2001 9:40 am, Grainge, Derek wrote:
Another possibility is VNC.
VNC is at at&t's website http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Its purpose is create a session between a client and a server allowing the client to control the server. A pukka X server will allow you to run multiple apps on the local and remote machine, so VNC is not quite the same.
But it does allow a win* machine to control a Unix one and vice versa which is neat. That's its main purpose I think. When you run an app you are running it on the remote station and viewing that machine's (virtual) screen.
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