From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 17: 2:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A7D37B8CE for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:02:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@pool0179.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net) Received: from pool0179.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool0242.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.250.242]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00849; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:02:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0179.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA00729; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:55:04 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Kevin Gross Cc: questions Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD X applications from a networked WindowsNT Message-ID: <20000715165504.C273@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <000901bfeeae$ef97dad0$039cc0d8@144> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000901bfeeae$ef97dad0$039cc0d8@144>; from kc144@sprynet.com on Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:49:25PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:49:25PM -0400, Kevin Gross wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got two computers, one running FreeBSD 4 stable and the other running > WindowsNT 4.0 sp6a. They are connected via ethernet. I would like to use > X-WinPro 5.3 (an X server for Windows) to connect to my BSD box with the > obvious purpose of running some x-windows programs in WindowsNT. I want to > keep my BSD box secure (it is also connected to the internet). X and security do not mix well. > How do I > set up FreeBSD to enable remote X sessions? There is not really anything to set up if the FreeBSD box has X installed. Remember the concept of client and server are somewhat reverse when you start talking about X. The majority of the security risk is at your X server, the NT machine. However, I would recommend that you use SSH to tunnel your X session between the client and server. This requires an SSH client on your X server that does tunneling. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message