Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:49:37 -0500 From: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Remote X from another BSD Box Message-ID: <004501c2ee93$baaba710$2f811581@garfield> In-Reply-To: <20030320034023.GD3265@adelaide.edu.au>
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Thanks guys, -X worked great! KDE on my Sun box now. :) Now all I need
is a non-optical Sun mouse, and to try NetBSD so I can use SMP. :)
--Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim@lost.net.au]
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:40 PM
To: Brian McCann
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box
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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