I believe you guys are saying the same thing, but from different
prospectives.
To the guy running the Database Server, the distant user is Remote. To the
User, the DB server is remote. In any event, the end user runs a PC with
the X-Server on it. The Applications he is operating can run on his local
machine, and/or a distant server (which runs the X-Windows Client Software).
The confusing part is X-Windows client/server terminology is exactly
backwards from everything else, just like Paul says. Which make sense,
being that it is the "Windows" part of Unix...<grin>
Ken Elliott
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From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Paul M Foster
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Debian
John wrote:
>
> The client is the part that might be remote.
Nope. It's exactly the reverse of what it is in every other client-server
architecture (like a MySQL server, where the client may be on a remote
machine). For a truly remote link, the server sits on the remote user's
machine and the client is on yours (if they're linked into your machine).
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