From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 19 6: 0:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeze.org (www.stelesys.com [208.177.187.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3327137B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: (from jim@localhost) by freeze.org (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3JD04a65067; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:00:04 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim) X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed from queue /var/spool/alt_queue X-Authentication-Warning: www.stelesys.com: Processed by jim with -C /web/siteinfo/freeze/mail/sendmail.cf Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:00:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Freeze X-X-Sender: To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: , "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD as an X workstation - Not sure how to word question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Apr 2001, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > I normally just use X over ssh when I want to access gui progs on > other machines. I run X on my own machine, then do > xhost +addressofremotemachine > ssh -X machinename > > then launch the command. ssh handles the authentication as well as > making sure that my session is encrypted. It also means that I don't > have to run X ports all over the place. > I just tried this. On my local machine I typed xhost +addressofremotemachine ssh -X remotemachine -l myname xv test.jpg And I get the following error: % xv test.jpg channel 0: istate 4 != open channel 0: ostate 64 != open X connection to eeyore1:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Do I need to do something else? My local machine is behind a firewall. Thanks ========================================================= Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org --------------------------------------------------------- No comment at this time. http://www.freeze.org ========================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message