[SunHELP] Using a PC keyboard/mouse with Ultra5/10's

Phil Brutsche sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 10 13:01:33 CDT 2001


A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Hi All,
>
> I've having some fun with VNC to share my Sun keyboard/mouse with my
> W2K desktop but the Sun keyboard/mouse I have are very old and clunky.
> Is anyone aware of a similar method (non-hardware) but allowing use of
> a W2k keyboard/mouse to be shared on a Sun Solaris box, ideally over
> IP ?

Do it the old-fasioned way: Run an X11 display server on your Windows
desktop.

The downside is that there's nothing decent freely available :(  IMO the
best is Hummingbird Exceed but it costs something in the vicinity of $150
USD.


Phil




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