Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 13, 2006 05:31 AM
We had been using Cygwin/XFree for XDMCP sessions from Windows to a Linux server. It worked. It dazzled people, even though it's essentially 20 year old technology. However, we've found that it is very bandwidth-intensive on the order of Gigabytes per day. Plus Cygwin/XFree is not a trivial install for clueless Windows users (easy, but not trivial). If someone would package it up into one neat<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.exe install program, it might be easier to install; but still, we're talking 150+ MB for a glorified X Terminal. (Xming may be the alternative some people are looking for here: <a href="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/" title="straightrunning.com">http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/</a straightrunning.com>)
We needed something simpler and smaller. We settled on XDMCP via VNC. The Windows client setup consists of just installing vncviewer or tightvncviewer. There are a few tutorials for setting up the XDMCP via VNC system, including <a href="http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/" title="linuxreviews.org">http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/</a linuxreviews.org> .
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 13, 2006 05:31 AMWe needed something simpler and smaller. We settled on XDMCP via VNC. The Windows client setup consists of just installing vncviewer or tightvncviewer. There are a few tutorials for setting up the XDMCP via VNC system, including
<a href="http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/" title="linuxreviews.org">http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xvnc/</a linuxreviews.org> .
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