We have been using a commercial X Windows server on our PCs to get GUI access to our unix boxes for years. Recently though, a new set of people here need to get access to a new AIX system we have. They didn't want to spring for commercial licenses, so I introduced them to the Cygwin/X server software from http://x.cygwin.com, available at no cost under a modified GNU license.
Download the software, making sure to choose to install the inetutils and xorg-x11 portions. I also installed the openssh piece so I could use SSH to connect to servers if I wanted to.
Once installed, launch Cygwin and it'll give you a unix-like terminal interface to your PC files.
Make sure dtlogin is running on the remote unix host. If it isn't, run this on the host:
# /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin &
Then on your PC in the Cygwin window, run:
Xwin -query <remote_hostname> -from <my_pc_hostname_or_ip>
That will launch the nice GUI Xwindows login for the remote host.
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