As I told you, I'm sitting under a lab-LAN which got quite few nice machines with nice specs and 'figures'. When my machine can't take any more load or when the 'nice-specs' machines are idle 90% of a day or when I just want to use them, I run xterm/kterm on them and dump the X bits to my local machine. Just to clarify what I'm saying, let me draw the scenario: LOCAL AREA NETWORK - LAN ---------------------------------------- | | | | My Remote Remote Remote Machine Machine Machine Machine (A) (B) (C) (D) So, whenever, I want to run xterm or kterm(Kanji terminal) on B(=Remote Machine) from A(=My Machine), I just do on A(=my machine): rxterm B or rkterm B If it's successful, you can run X applications from that xterm on B from your own machine. By the way, the usage is very simple: rxterm remote-hostname rkterm remote-hostname And don't forget to keep an entry in 'remote-hostname's $HOME/.rshots file. A typical entry might be something like: your-machine-IP username-on-your-machine For example, since my machine's local IP is: 192.168.1.45 and username on 192.168.1.45 is 'walkaway', the contents of $HOME/.rhosts on remote machine(the machine on which I want to run xterm): 192.168.1.45 walkaway Check them out: rxterm and rkterm However, I would recommend you to go through the following page thoroughly before you start dumping screens across hosts: http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/matic/ccxsec.htm

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