From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 20 4:59:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smof.fiawol.org (fiawol.org [209.122.117.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC88A37B583 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gus@fiawol.org) Received: (from gus@localhost) by smof.fiawol.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA01577; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:46:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gus) From: Gus Mancuso Message-Id: <200007191646.MAA01577@smof.fiawol.org> Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD X applications from a networked WindowsNT In-Reply-To: <000901bfeeae$ef97dad0$039cc0d8@144> "from Kevin Gross at Jul 15, 2000 06:49:25 pm" To: Kevin Gross Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 12:46:36 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Kevin. If X is already set up on your BSD Box, just do xhost + NTBOXNAME so that it will allow X connections from the NT machine. Do keep in mind that X isn't terribly secure (see the other posts regarding this.. I'm no security expert). I've never used X-WinPro, but I've used some other X servers before, and one of the main problems I found was that they all want to use rsh, which noone enables (with good reason, I'm told) anymore. I usually had to ssh over to the BSD machine, then start whichever app I wanted to use (possibly setting $DISPLAY to my machine name... depends on your ssh setup) for example: export $DISPLAY=NTBOX:0.0 xcalc & of course, NTBOX must be resolvable by the Unix Box. Hope that helps. -Gus [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > 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). How do I > set up FreeBSD to enable remote X sessions? I already have the two > computers talking via telnet and sharing files via samba, so the network is > functional. Can somebody give me a quick synopsis of how to set this up and > perhaps a pointer to some more detailed information? > > Thanks, > > Kevin Gross > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message