From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 4:28:58 2002 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 A2D2C37B401 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate21.fw.porsche.de (gate23.fw.porsche.de [193.174.9.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0E4243E3B for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 04:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perisa@porsche.de) Received: (qmail 2468 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2002 12:36:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wuxin011.ibd.porsche.de) (141.36.65.1) by 193.197.149.150 with SMTP; 31 Oct 2002 12:36:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 18274 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2002 12:28:45 -0000 Received: from beastie.ibd.porsche.de (HELO porsche.de) (141.36.3.29) by smtp4cli.ibd.porsche.de with SMTP; 31 Oct 2002 12:28:44 -0000 Message-ID: <3DC123BC.50209@porsche.de> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 13:36:12 +0100 From: Marc Perisa User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020709 X-Accept-Language: en, de-de, es-es MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael C. Cambria" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSH x11 forwarding of netscape References: <3DC051F4.4010003@fid4.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ -redirected to -questions where it belongs] Michael C. Cambria wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just starting using SSH for X11 forwarding from one FreeBSD > 4.6-Stable machine to another. One is home, the other in the office. > > I've been successfull doing this with most programs I've tried. The man > page suggests "ssh -f host xterm", but in my case I need to also supply > '-X' (as in "ssh -X -f host xterm"), but other than the '-X', most > programs I've tried work. > > The goal is to be able to run mail etc. from home or (several) office, > keeping all the folders etc. in one place, on the home machine. > > From the office, when I try netscape, things don't work. The command > issued from my work system is "ssh -X -f netscape". > > Not only does netscape not start, Mozilla does! Worse yet, Mozilla > starts not on the remote machine, but on the local one. Running netstat > on both machines confirms this observation, as does looking at local > files from mozilla. > What happened if you type "ssh -X ", login and then type "netscape" ? Hope that helps Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message