VNC Server for 2.1

[Chris Ruprecht]

Rob,

On Wed October 9 2002 00:54, bronto wrote:
> Right or wrong, I now have Cygwin installed; startx works and loads
> up a rather primitive looking window manager (twm?).  I tried init 5
> but I get:
>
> bash: init: command not found.

No, no, no - all the stuff I described earlier, you have to do on the Lin=
ux=20
machine, not the Windoze box. You can use the Windoze box as a client to =
the=20
YDL (or any other X11) box.
Do not get confused by the term 'X Server' on Windoze - there is always s=
ome X=20
server on a local machine, but that doesn't mean, it serves external=20
connections ;).


>
> Perhaps I'm missing some libraries from cygwin?  FWIW, the account in
> cygwin is my username and machine name in Windows.  I can't SU and
> logout kills the session, so if "root" is applicable here I don't
> know how to get there.
>
> >Using telnet or SSH?  Tried that, didn't work.  "Fatal Server error:
> >PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.  Perhaps you do
> >not have console ownership?"  Using a regular user account, doesn't
> >seem to me that I should need to use root here.  I'm on windows; is
> >this where I "need to install Cygwin and their X server"?
>
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