Re: temporary allowing telnet to use x-windows
Digital Equipment Corp used to have a freebie that you could download from their site... I don't remember it's name however it was an X-Win emulator for win31, win95, etc.
It ran in only 256 color, yet was fast enought to be useable. Worked very similar to another X box in the fact that you had to xhost + (the unix machine)
and also set the correct display varible on the host... so it worked out okay... no big deal. But not many colors, and for the life of me, I can't recall it's name. As for the connection it was just TCP/IP... you telnet in, log in, set your DISPLAY var, and open up whichever X apps you wanted.
Lot of luck fining it... why not just get that person on a Linux machine with Windows emulator?
Jack
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:47:07AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> Oh.
>
> Well, John. Your user will have to install an X-server on his machine.
> IIRC, there used to be a free beer version of M/IX for Windows, but as of
> version 2.0, it isn't. So, you can go with that -- or MicroX or Exceed or
> hope that the XFree on Windows project ships something soon.
>
> Once your user has installed an X-server on his machine, and configured it
> to accept connexions from your telnet server, you can tell any X-clients
> on the telnet server to use the user's X-server as a diaplay.
>
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, john smith wrote:
>
> > ok...I'll try to clarify this....Basically, What I want is:
> >
> > o User is on one machine in local network (windows)
> > O Wants to connect to a second machine (debian)
> >
> > user wants to telnet to debian (using windows) then wants to try to run
> > x-window via telnet.
> >
> > how can these be done temporarily and easily? with no regard to security if
> > it will make it easier...
> >
> > Does it make any sense? there is no particular reason why we want to do this
> > other than just to try and make it work.
> >
> >
> >
> > >...if I've misunderstood your post, please clarify your question.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >One possible other interpretation is that you are trying to telnet
> > >*from* 10.1.0.1 to 10.1.0.2, and want to start an X session *on the
> > >remote host* (note that this ordinarily isn't viewable to the user).
> > >Generally, the file /etc/X11/Xserver disallows non-root users from
> > >initiating an X session unless they're sitting at the console. See
> > >this
> > >file for further information (its about a dozen lines).
> > >
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