[mdlug] A big opportunity for Linux?

[David Lee Lambert]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 10:10, David Lane wrote:
> I have a mixed environment both PC and Linux. And I'm about to implement
> web, data, and email servers.
>
> So yes  Full Remotes for both from both.

Ray mentioned Cygwin/X.  I use this daily at work; I usually have one emacs 
process running on my Linux workstation, and select "File > Open Frame on New 
Display..." to display it on my Windows workstation as well.

In the other direction, you can use the Linux client for the Remote Desktop 
Protocol (the wrapper-package on Ubuntu is called "tsclient").  

In either direction,  you can use VNC.

If you just want to execute text-only programs (for instance to start/stop 
services, "net start" on Windows and "/etc/init.d/... start" on Linux) you 
can use SSH.  Cygwin has an SSH server and client;  I'm pretty sure that 
Microsoft Services for Unix does too.  However,  I usually use PuTTY as an 
SSH client from Windows.

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:26:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] A big opportunity for Linux?
>
> David Lane wrote:
> > Is there a windows GUI resource that Allows you to Linux Remote from
>
>  a
>
> > Windows pc?
> >
> > David
>
> Do you mean a full remote desktop, of just running individual GUI
> applications remotely? For the later some might recommend cygwin, but I
> have no experience with that. But you might try ssh -X from Damn Small
> Linux running in a VMware player session.
>
> It seems to work quite well, I trying it out right now. I'm composing
> this message while sitting at my laptop in my living room. Thunderbird
> is running on a computer in my basement but displaying in a DSL window
> in on Vista.
>
> I'm not sure what facilities cygwin provides but if you just need a
> local X environment for the display of remote applications this seems
> like a good way to go.
>
> Raymond McLaughlin
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