Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:10:23 +1030 From: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Message-ID: <20030320034023.GD3265@adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield> References: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield>
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:06:45PM -0500, Brian McCann wrote:
> Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work
> from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have 2
> boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a full
> blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just has
> a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the OpenBSD
> box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be able to ssh
> into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever I wanted...but
> no dice. Can someone help me out?
Connect with something like:
openbsd.box% ssh -X user@freebsd.box
Then just start your favourite X applications, and they will display
on the OpenBSD machine like you want. If that doesn't work, add
'-v' to the ssh options to see what goes wrong.
HTH,
-tim
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