RE: Cygwin32 VNCserver

Rui Carmo ()
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:24:52 +0100

Er... I had the URL for Cygwin32 around, but must have lost it when I switched machines. As I recall, it's a set of compatibility libraries to port Unix apps to NT. There was even someone brave enough to port X11R6... 8'))))))))))))))

Just one thing, though, that keeps puzzling me:

The likely usage of such an X server would be to run it locally on an NT machine and send X applications from Unix machines to it - and run vncviewer locally to see that X display, right?

Now, as I recall, vncviewer does NOT allow connections to localhost, right?

Would this be a good reason to rethink this well-meant "feature"?

Best regards,

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:  [mailto:]On
> Behalf Of Mac Reiter
> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 16:38
> To: 
> Subject: Cygwin32 VNCserver
> 
> 
> Quite possibly this is the wrong place to ask, so I'll keep it short.
> Does anyone have the current link to the Cygwin32 port of 
> VNCserver (Xvnc on Win32, apparently)?  My browser says it can't 
> find the machine in the link at www.orl.co.uk/vnc/contrib (could 
> be a nameserver issue, but other stuff seems to be working fine).
> 
> In trying to get information about Cygwin32, I felt that I had 
> been left out of some large "everybody knows about that" topic... 
>  I can't find info about what Cygwin32 is, where to get it, or 
> anything else.  I also ran across something called V or VGUI, 
> which seems to be related, but I couldn't get any meaningful info 
> on that, either...  Any tips?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mac Reiter
> 
>

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