Subject: Re: F-Secure SSH, secure X, etc
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Thu Nov 04 1999 - 15:46:27 MST
It works great! Their WinNT X-server used to be free as well, but they
now charge for it.
Guillaume Marçais wrote:
>
> For a free Mac X Server, see:
> http://www.microimages.com/freestuf/mix/
>
> To be honest I haven't try it! Does any one out there have any coments
> about it?
>
> Guillaume
>
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Patrick Larkin wrote:
>
> > Hi Jason:
> >
> > You could very well buy both. You could buy F-Secure SSH and MacX for
> > instance. Or you could use a free X Server...I can't think of the one I
> > used a while back but there is at least one.
> >
> > Don't know of a free ssh client that handles X11 sessions....
> >
> > "Jason P. Stanford" wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure I fully follow a "secure X" session is handled from a Mac
> > > client. From a previous reply to an earlier message I had, someone had
> > > suggested using F-Secure SSH (+tunneling?) to create secure X sessions
> > > to my server, so that I would not have to share a monitor, keyboard and
> > > mouse. I am curious about this setup. I assume I would need to purchase
> > > *both* the ssh package, *and* an X server for the mac. Is this right? Do
> > > they work together? Or is it just that if I export the display, after
> > > logging in via ssh, the Mac X server will handle the GUI part of it? I
> > > want to be clear on how this is working. Thanks.
> > >
> > > jason
> >
> >
-- Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com http://www.bgcorp.com --- "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."-- T. S. Eliot
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