Comments on: Easy and Free X-Windowing Setup with Cygwin http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/06/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/ Writing About Our Experiences With Oracle Databases Fri, 18 May 2012 09:57:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Amit http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/06/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/#comment-45 Amit Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:57:34 +0000 http://askoracledba.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/#comment-45 Thanks Eckes..I was not aware of Xming. Nice to know there are other utilities too. Recently I came across one more tool (though it is not free) called HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) which allows you to directly connect to the Unix server. We found it useful as our servers were located in different place having a policy of not allowing unsecured Remote access. So ILO provides Secured network access and we also found it to be faster. Thanks again for the info :) Thanks Eckes..I was not aware of Xming. Nice to know there are other utilities too. Recently I came across one more tool (though it is not free) called HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2) which allows you to directly connect to the Unix server. We found it useful as our servers were located in different place having a policy of not allowing unsecured Remote access. So ILO provides Secured network access and we also found it to be faster. Thanks again for the info :)

]]> By: eckes http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/06/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/#comment-44 eckes Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:09:11 +0000 http://askoracledba.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/#comment-44 Cygwin is a pretty nice Environment for Unix commands under Windows. But if you only want to start a X-Server I usually recommend using Xming. But your approach of using vncserver is clearly preffered. It is faster over high latency networks and it allows to detach and resume a session. (the later could also be achieved by using NX but thats a bit more complicated to set up). Cygwin is a pretty nice Environment for Unix commands under Windows. But if you only want to start a X-Server I usually recommend using Xming.

But your approach of using vncserver is clearly preffered. It is faster over high latency networks and it allows to detach and resume a session. (the later could also be achieved by using NX but thats a bit more complicated to set up).

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