Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X? From: Michael Uman To: Tomasz Chmielewski Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <1118779342.30762.1.camel@muman-pc> References: <42AF2A0E.2050804@mch.one.pl> <1118779342.30762.1.camel@muman-pc> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1118779466.30762.3.camel@muman-pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:04:26 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes PS: If you are concerned about security {who isn't}.... You can tunnel VNC through a SSH tunnel... Michael Uman On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:02, Michael Uman wrote: > Hello, > > I would recommend looking at VNC server.. If you run VNC server on your > windows box, you can log into it from your Linux VNC client and view > your Windows desktop... This works in both directions {you can run VNC > server on Linux and log into it from Windows}.... > > Hope this can help... > > Michael Uman > > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:03, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > I couldn't find it on Google and I feel it's a different thing than > > running Linux X applications (like xterm etc.), which is done by Cygwin/X. > > > > > > Is it possible to "display" Windows program on Linux via ssh / X? > > > > What I mean, normally we do something like that: > > > > windows_cygwin$ ssh -l user linuxbox -X > > linuxbox$ xterm > > > > and we start xterm on Linux, but it is displayed by a Windows X server. > > > > > > I want to do something in an opposite direction: start Windows apps on > > Linux display: > > > > linuxbox$ ssh -l user windows_cygwin -X > > windows_cygwin$ notepad > > > > or > > > > windows_cygwin$ iexplore.exe > > > > > > And these Windows applications would be displayed on my Linux. > > > > Is it possible with Cygwin? > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/