running x on a pc at home talking to a host over serial line some time back i asked for software recommendations to allow me to run x from my pc at home to my sparc at the office many thanks for all replies the majority of people recommended pcxremote from ncd i received it yesterday and installed it on my sparc and pc with only one hitch the unix install consists of copying files into some local bin directory on the pc side i ordered the windows version which came with a slick windows installation the only problem i had was that my xinitrc in my home directory had the line display hostname export display s t the clients i kicked off connected to my xserver on the sparc console by removing this line from the xinitrc everything worked as planned and the clients connected to the server at hostname some comments on performance i was connected to a sparc thru a netblazer terminal server over a baud line my pc is a dx ati ultra mb bitmap stuff sucked basic editing and compilation stuff definitely usable xmail was very usable at times the first time u typed in an xclient window there was a very noticable delay i put this down to brain damaged windows should not be called a scheduler besides that this will become my remote work environment for a while has anybody tried the non windows version of the product the sales person said they performed about the same given the over head of windows i question this many thanks for help to all who responded gerard
