From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 18:55:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25515 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25471 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA21321; Sat, 2 May 1998 18:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:55:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dennis Reiter cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Stupid X Server tricks In-Reply-To: <000f01bd739e$51ea52a0$0200a8c0@Dell> 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 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