Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:55:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dennis Reiter <mcneills@inw.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stupid X Server tricks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980502185503.21194U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000f01bd739e$51ea52a0$0200a8c0@Dell>
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Dennis Reiter wrote: > I've got a newbie puzzle that I can't seem to solve. > I've got TNT MicroImages X Server loaded on my NT > machine at work and would like to contact my FreeBSD > machine at home. The only problem is that I have to > go through a proxy server (Wingate to be precise) and > haven't got it figured out. I mapped port 177 through > to my machine, both UDP & TCP packets but don't seem to > have anything coming in. I CAN contact the X Server > from the proxy machine, IOW a direct connection, so I > know that it is accepting connections. > > Is this just an exercise in futility? > I don't know if X supports proxy. You might try finding the Windows SSH client from Cedonir Igaly, log into the FreeBSD box, and then fire up X. The ssh X forwarding may get around the proxy. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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