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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacX
To: allynh@avsi.com (Allyn Hardyck)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 10:54:37 MDT
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> How can I get my FreeBSD machine to accept requests to generate X
> windows and send them back to a Mac running MacX?
> 
> - Doing an "rsh fbsd-machine xterm -display fbsd-machine2..." on
>   fbsd-machine2 works, where both machine and machine2 are running
>   FreeBSD and fbsd-machine2 is in fbsd-machine's .rhosts.

The program "xrsh" is superior for this application, but rsh works.

> - Having a telnet window open to fbsd-machine on a Mac and running the
>   xterm back from there to the Mac works, if MacX is up on the Mac.
>   (i.e. not a problem with MacX)
> 
> - Opening a window from inside MacX to a non-FreeBSD machine
>   works, using MacTCP Tool to send the name, password and display
>   information.  (i.e. not a problem with MacX's password-passing
>   functions)

I don't understand exactly what you are doing here.  Are you consuming
display services of an X server running on a FreeBSD machine using an
X client on your Mac?

This is the only scenario that makes sense for "Opening a window from
inside MacX".

This will work within the bounds of allowable host connections to the
X server (ie: X0.hosts vs. the xhost command).


> What doesn't work is opening a window from inside MacX to a
> local FreeBSD machine.  I'm assuming it's being paranoid about
> stuff happening on not well known ports; a good thing, but how
> do I selectively turn it off?

What exactly happens when you "open a window from inside MacX"?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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