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I don't need to do this as much as I used to, so I normally use either a mounted ssh filesystem, or "sharing" through a DVCS these days.

A few years ago I worked at a place where they gave us a local windows box and a remote headless linux box where the code ran (this was before virtualization was ubiquitous). I used cygwin on windows and forwarded X11 sessions running on the remote linux box to my windows box over ssh.

windows w/putty: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ssh.html OSX: http://dyhr.com/2009/09/05/how-to-enable-x11-forwarding-with...

It let me run eclipse and other GUI apps on the linux box, but have them mostly feel like native apps (well, native X11 apps) on the windows box.

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