X Windows server for MS Windows?

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Apr 10 07:03:02 EDT 2001


I've used both hummingbird, excursion and XonNet. I currently use Excursion 
at work because our hummingbird licences expired. In any case, excursion 
has been working fine for me on Windows2000 (which I would convert to Linux 
if I could find a decent replacement for MS Project.
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> Hello to all:
> 
> I am looking for an X Server for NT 4 and Win2k.   I want to pipe some ssh
> sessions with X forwarding to my Microsoft boxes.   I have a few machines
> connected to a Linksys 8-port dsl/cable router/gateway with ssh
> forwarding.
> 
> I've tried working with xwindemo and some other free/shareware X Servers.
> I have installed Cygwin and obtained XFree86 in hopes of trying to compile
> it.
> 
> I would ultimately like to have a reliable X Server running as a
> background app (similar to Humingbird), without breaking the bank (as this
> is for home/educational/experimentation purposes).
> 
> Thanks much.
> 
> Scott
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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