From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 10:53:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2A016A400 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:53:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5543B43D46 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:53:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost.esiee.fr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 21B863658C6; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Received: from secure.esiee.fr (secure.esiee.fr [147.215.1.19]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE41E3658BB; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:53:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [147.215.1.21] (lisa.esiee.fr [147.215.1.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bonnetf) by secure.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 957EC39831; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:52:23 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4450A2B8.40209@esiee.fr> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:53:44 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <445093AB.10205@esiee.fr> <200604271003.k3RA38Wl092175@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200604271003.k3RA38Wl092175@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xhost does not work as expected X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:53:46 -0000 Olivier Nicole wrote: > Franck, > >> I am at 6.0 with xorg and I cannot remotely use a GUI backup >> software ( netvault) because I am not able to use properly the xhost >> command. > > It is not clear what you can client and what you call server, are you > talking about your backup software: the server is the machine with the > tape drive and the clientis the machine where you sit and look at your > GUI; or about X: the server is the machine where you sit and look at > your GUI and the client is the machine running netvault and having the > tape drive. > Sorry to be unclear > That said: > > - can you run xterm on the netvault machine (m1) and display the window on > the machine with 6.0 xorg (m2)? no I cannot > > You need: > > - on netvault machine (m1) to setenv DISPLAY m2:0.0 > > - on 6.0 xorg machine (m2) xhost + m1 > that's what I did ... but it has not been working > - are you sure that no firewall are blocking X connection between the 2 > machines? yes sure they are on the same LAN > > Bests, > > Olivier > -- Frank Bonnet