[SunRescue] 'X' software to connect MS Windows to Solaris?

[Christopher Byrne]

Personally I use Exceed. It's very stable, very capable, and unfortunately
very very expensive. I've tried half a dozen different X servers, vnc, and
CA's remote desktop, and exceed is the best solution I've seen so far.

Plus it includes an amazing amount of extra stuff. An NFS client for
windows, terminal emulators, ntp clients, whois and nslookup clients, a dig
client etc... etc... etc... basically giving your windows box much of the
functionality of a UNIX workstation.

The downside as I said, is the cost. It starts out at something like $500 a
seat. You can get a site license at a greatly reduce cost per seat if you
have five or more seats however. Or you can do what I did and buy it on EBay
from a software distributor going out of business for $25 ;-)

Chris Byrne

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Eric Hall
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 17:17
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] 'X' software to connect MS Windows to Solaris?


Brian Dunbar wrote:

> I'm looking for the best solution to connect Windows NT desktops to a
series
> of Solaris workstations . . can anyone recommend software for such?
>
> The company solution is PC-Xware, but I'm becoming disenchanted with it's
> propensity to crash, and carry the desktop with it (when the service GPFs,
> the entire desktop craters and the end-user must logout - frustrating).
> I've downloaded a thing called HOBLink, which works, but I can't tell how
> well until we buy the entire package.
>
> Background - we're a PCB design firm, 60-40 NT-Solaris.  The 'trend' is to
> migrate the Solaris boxes to a rack, give everyone NT on the desktop, and
> make them use an X-Server (client) software to connect to the unix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian

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