[olug] looking for an application

[drose.SCANTRON at scantron.com]

Thanks for the replies.

I've tried both Cygwin & vnserver.   I want to thank Jon for the detailed
instructions with Cygwin.

Both methods work well, however, I'm not sure if these will do what I need.

Currently most of my customers run on SCO Openserver, SCO Unixware, AIX, or
some other obscure Unix.  Currently the only way I have to access most of
these machines is via dial up.  Some of these customers are moving to RH
7.3, but I don't know if they will have access to the internet or not, so I
have to assume that I will have to continue using dial up to access their
servers.

At first glance, these two products look like they only work over an IP
connection.  Does anyone know if they will run over a dial up connection?
If not, does anyone know of a product that will?  What I am thinking of is
something like Exceed by Hummingbird.

Exceed had a daemon that a person could start up on their PC, and whether
they were on a network, or dialup connection, they could run a xhost
session.

I do most of everything via the command line, but there are a few things
that using a gui in RH makes it so much easier like, setting up printers,
and networks.  I guess I don't need  to have this, but it would be nice, &
make my life easier.

Thanks.

Daryl Rose
Unix Support Specialist
drose at scantron.com
1-800-228-3628 x3061



                                                                                                                                       
                      Jonathan Warren                                                                                                  
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:39:58PM -0800, CM Miller wrote:
>
>
> What steps do you take to run Cygwin?  I have a W2K
> box and  Linux box, the .exe is on the W2K box and
> what I do I need to setup on the linux box to make
> this happen?

go to www.cygwin.com and download setup.exe
Tell it you want to install from net and choose a mirror all that jazz.
At some point in installer you will get to package selection.  If you want
an X servre you need to install Xfree86 and a window manager.  I recomend
openbox because it is light weight and runs well under Cygwin.  Also make
sure and install ssh.  Once all this is installed you should have been
prompted to create icon on desktop.  Double click icon and you should get a
bash shell in a dos window.  this is your local machine.  If you want to
see the root of any drive the path is /cygdrive/c /cygdrive/d so on and so
forth.  To run the X server type startx.  It will probably default to fvwm
which is pretty ugly.  if you installed openbox you can create a file
called .xinitrc and make openbox the window manager.  You may need to add
/usr/X11R6/bin to your path.  I think it is missing after a clean install.
Once you can get an X server and a window manager you like than use ssh to
connect to your linux box.  If you have enabled X11 forwarding in ssh you
should be able to run X commands and have them run in the cygwin Xfree86
server.  Is that confusing enough?

-Jon
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