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X11 Forwarding with CygWin on Windows XP

1. Install CygWin – make sure you choose the openssh option as well as the X11-base utilities 2. Open up a cygwin shell and ssh into the remote device (R1) 3. Open up another cygwin shell on the host (H1) and run startx 4. Open up another cygwin shell on the host (H2) and run [...]

Getting SuSE Linux to run VNCServer on startup

After searching all morning for a good way to get VNCServer to startup on my SLES10 machine at work, I found this great page that actually worked. http://susefaq.sourceforge.net/howto/vnc.html SLES10 does a remote desktop feature built in, but it does not let you share the desktop across different computers. This scenario fixed it for me.