From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 23 22:34:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (adsl-210.54.19.51.quicksilver.net.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B55137B404 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2002 22:34:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2O6YH121052; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:34:17 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:34:17 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Ceri Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting to an Openwin session Message-ID: <20020324183417.A20820@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020323162817.GA14652@submonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020323162817.GA14652@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:28:17PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:28:17PM +0000, Ceri wrote: > > hey all, > > I've got a sparcstation running Solaris 2.6, and I noticed that on the > Openwin login screen, there's an option to log into remote hosts. > Presumably this means that if I had two such machines then I'd be able > to use one to log into openwin on the other. > > So my FreeBSD question is, is there any software I can use to connect > and login to openwin on the sparcstation from my FreeBSD machine ? Check out the Xserver man page. When you start up an Xserver on your FreeBSD box, you can supply a "-query hostname" (hostname being your Solaris box's hostname), and you should come up with the Openwin login screen of your Solaris box. eg: startx -- -query hostname -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message