On 09/13/2011 05:06 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 13/09/2011 08:22 AM, Warp wrote:
>> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> While we're on the subject, by default you can log in to any remote
>>> Windows PC that you happen to know the administrator password to. No
>>> special software required. Again, try getting X11 to let you do that.
>>> Good luck.
>>
>> Did you know that the X windowing system was actually designed from the
>> very beginning to run remotely? Running it locally was just a "free"
>> feature
>> on top of that.
>
> Yes indeedy. (I also know that they got the usual meanings of "server"
> and "client" backwards too.)
>
> Now I haven't tried it, but I'm told is approximately /impossible/ to
> actually configure X so that you can access it remotely. Even though
> that's its entire design goal.

easy on "nix" systems ... through a socket!

>
>> It's Windows that was designed to be a purely local system, and to which
>> remote running was patched in later.
>
> And yet, Windows is the one where I run a command, type in the name of
> any networked PC, and I have remote access. By default. No special
> configuration required.
>
> (OTOH, doesn't X allow more than one user to log in at once? With
> Windows, that's a special extra feature that costs $$$.)

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