Re: windows here, server there

Use RMI or some such thing to connect the GUI "swing management console" 
to the rest.  Then type "export DISPLAY=123.123.123.123:0" where 
123.123.123.123 is your ip address.  I don't remember what ports you 
need unblocked.  You may also have to dink with xauth (xauth +username 
IIRC).  You can use wahtever xwindows client you like on your windows 
box and there are serveral (including cygwin).  The easiet thing here is 
to make your client disconnect and reconnect as just an RMI (or other 
such RPC) client.  Less speedy, but nothing compared to your X emulation 
under cygwin ;-)...

If you genuinely want your desktop running/preserved and want the gui 
thing to run in process then you need more than X.  I used to use VNC 
for something similar. 
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~wooters/persistentX.html

Now I mostly don't install X on my servers so I may be slightly out of 
date (or worse).  You may get more mileage (since this is 90% a linux 
question, 5% a windows question and maybe 5% a java question) asking the 
TRILUG list...

-Andy



Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> I want to run a server program on a Redhat Linux 3.0ES host (which I've 
> rented from RimuHosting.com) and have a Java Swing management console 
> for that server which I can run at home on my Windows XP.  I can do most 
> of this: with Cygwin.com on my home machine I can use X-windows 
> forwarding and display Swing windows here with the program running there.
> 
> But I turn off my home machine every night, and I want the server 
> program to run continuously.  This is the part I need help with.  How 
> can I run a Java program on the remote Linux machine which will run 
> continuously and also will be the client for my X-windows server at 
> home, whenever I connect, for as long as I connect?
> 
> Thank you,
> Rich Hammer
> 
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