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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



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