Very Computer

Hi, everyone,

    If you think you can give me some help on this, please
e-mail me at

    I have a Sparc in my office. But I don't have root access
(many thanks to our bureaucratic CIS). I have a PC at home
which runs Linux and X-windows. So normally to work from home,
I dial-in to the company and log-on to my sparc. But the place
where I work doesn't provide SLIP or PPP service. So I log-on
just like I'm using a dumb text terminal. The problem is that
I got greedy, I want graphics.

    I know there are some people in a similar situation uses
the PC-Xware (MS Windows based X-Window simulator). What they
do is to run "Xremote" (or xinitremote) after dial-into the
UNIX systems in their office. "The Xremote program is a protocol
interpreter which acts as the endpoint of a TCP-domain X-windows
connect, and communicates over a serial line to an appropriately
configured NCD X-server." From what I understand, the PC simply
becomes a X-terminal (DISPLAY) over the serial line, and both
side (the PC and the dialed-in UNIX) multiplex the X-data over
the srial line.

    In the case of PC-Xware, setup is really simple. Everything
is taken care of by the software. You simply need to issue a
xinitremote command from the dialed-in UNIX. I wonder if there
is a similar software package for Linux. Or if I have to setup
my Linux as a X-terminal over serial line on my own, how do I
do it?

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Bo Zhang

Although I've switched to PPP, which isn't an acceptable solution
for you, I used to use 'term' (there is a HOWTO on this). It
does nearlyt everything PPP does for you. You can also display
X programs on your machine at home (even the other way around!).

One caveat: I haven't used it in while, and I believe support may
be a little hard to get since the 2.0 kernels term broke in some
way and I have not seen anybody reporting on it being fixed (or
broken for that matter) .

peter

Perhaps you can do this by running SLiRP, a SLIP/PPP emulator, on the
Sparc. I haven't tried it with X, but it works very well for standard net
stuff. See:

 http://www.webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html

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