X-Win32 will allow you to easily and securely connect your Windows computer to any Solaris, HP/UX, AIX or Linux system.

Whether you are designing an advanced IC, analyzing a string of human DNA, accessing an Oracle database, or configuring your enterprise networking server from home, X-Win32 allows you to quickly, easily and securely connect your Windows computer to any Solaris, HP/UX, AIX or Linux system.

While it is a client/server system, the X Window System has important differences between other client/server software such as mail or HTTP. A first-time user can be confused because X applications (such as xterm and mailtool) are clients, while an X display (such as X-Win32) is a server.

This means that when you start X-Win32 you have just started an X server and are now waiting for clients to connect to you. But how do you start a client on a remote machine?

Window management is the system whereby the user moves, resizes, stacks, and iconifies (minimizes) windows. It also displays titles on windows, and can let the user switch between several virtual screens. On Unix systems running X, windows are managed by a special X application known as a window manager.

Common ones are mwm (Motif), olwm (OpenLook), and dtwm (CDE). X-Win32 gives the user the option of using the Windows 95 window manager (Multiple Window mode) or an X window manager running on the Unix system (Single Window mode ). It is recommended that you use Multiple Window mode when using rsh or rexec, and Single Window mode when using XDMCP.