Re: starting kde/gnome

[Alan Harding <alanh flashmail com>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 19:40:01 -0500
Joseph A Nagy Jr <joseph_a_nagy_jr charter net> wrote:

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> On Sunday 14 September 2003 19:29, Mark McDonald wrote this in an 
> attempt to be witty or informative:
> > I'm using cygwin/Xfree86 for X windows hosting on
> > windows - I'm pretty sure
> > that using PuTTY is a similiar solution to what I've
> > got (but it might be a
> > smaller footprint).  I know I should use SSH, and will
> > if I open it to the
> > firewall.  Right now, I just want a way to log into
> > the Linux box from the
> > other computers on the LAN.
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May I suggest you look at vncserver, (a quick google should find it) this is a wrapper for starting X remotely. There is also an SSH version, which no doubt someone will remind me of :)
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