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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:28:56 +0100 (CET)
From: 520023893678-0001@t-online.de (P. U. Kruppa)
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To: Brian McCann <bjm1287@ritvax.rit.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: Remote X from another BSD Box
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Brian McCann wrote:

> 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
Just to throw in some 0.01 =A4 :
If you can spare some time, have a look at /usr/ports/vnc .
You can not only access X-Servers on different UN*X platforms,
but also Windows machines via any JAVA capable Browser.

Regards and sorry for interfering,

Uli.


>
> -----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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