displaying Windows program on Linux via ssh / X?

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo@mch.one.pl
Tue Jun 14 20:02:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor schrieb:
>>
>>I want to do something in an opposite direction: start Windows apps on
>>Linux display:
>>
>>linuxbox$ ssh -l user windows_cygwin -X
>>windows_cygwin$ notepad
>>
>>or
>>
>>windows_cygwin$ iexplore.exe
>>
>>
>>And these Windows applications would be displayed on my Linux.
>>
>>Is it possible with Cygwin?
> 
> 
> No.  This is not a goal for Cygwin.

Too bad, I was hoping to find some alternative to the Terminal Server 
(or Citrix) - that is, to allow different users to start applications 
remotely.

But it seems I had my head in the clouds :)

-- 
Tomek

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