From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 21:23:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12233 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:23:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA12227 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA16599; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:52:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id PAA18125; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:52:34 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981110155234.A499@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:52:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Stephen A Derdau , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Networking X (was: 2nd machine xwindow) References: <3647A708.4EA36F84@ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3647A708.4EA36F84@ne.mediaone.net>; from Stephen A Derdau on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 09:38:00PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 9 November 1998 at 21:38:00 -0500, Stephen A Derdau wrote: > I'm running X on 1st machine. > I open a xterm window and telnet to a 2nd machine. > I telnet to a 2nd machine . > can I run xwindow stuff off of the 2nd machine ? Yes. You can start an xterm on the remote machine, too, so you don't need telnet. > For example the 2nd machine may have > a command-tool to set up the printer > however I go to use it and get a few errors to the > effect of: > > Xlib: connection to "my.host.com:0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > ** WARNING **: cannot open display: my.host.com:0.0 You need to run xhost. Put this at the beginning of your .xinitrc on machine1: xhost machine2 > I'm running freebsd 2.2.7 on the 1st machine. > > linux 5.1 on the 2nd machine. That shouldn't make any difference. I assume you're running XFree86 on both machines. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message