From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 3 08:52:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2C316A420 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:52:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfleming@cryptomap.co.uk) Received: from cryptomap.co.uk (flemin.plus.com [84.92.78.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0069143D46 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:52:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfleming@cryptomap.co.uk) Received: from cryptomap.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cryptomap.co.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k138w8RP001036 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:58:08 GMT (envelope-from mfleming@cryptomap.co.uk) Received: (from mfleming@localhost) by cryptomap.co.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k138w8Aq001035 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:58:08 GMT (envelope-from mfleming@cryptomap.co.uk) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:58:08 +0000 From: Michael Fleming To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060203085808.GA926@cryptomap.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Fleming , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200602022149.17302.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602022149.17302.akbeech@alaskaparadise.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: remote x-window X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 08:52:02 -0000 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:48:56PM -0900, Beech Rintoul wrote: > I have sort of a newbie question. How do I connect to a remote machine wi= th=20 > x-windows and get a desktop? Could someone point me in the right directio= n as=20 > I've never had a need to to do it before. I do have ssh to the machine. >=20 > Beech > --=20 >=20 You'll have to export $DISPLAY=3Dx.x.x.x:0.0 so that the display on the remote machine is displayed on the local. You'll also have to forward X11 packets, check your ssh_conf so that "forward X11 yes". I use cygwin on my work laptop ( XP ) and a openvpn connection to my BSD machine then fire up the display on the XP machine. I did use just ssh and allowed only ssh from the outside to the BSD machine, but found that someone was trying to brute force the username and password so set up the openvpn. I feel a lot more comfortable with that, even though it's just my own private network. There's plenty of info on google to point you in the right direction. Mike >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 ****Michael Fleming***** mfleming@cryptomap.co.uk ****Free-BSD**** GnuPG Key Id 933B27E7 http://pgp.mit.edu/ --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD4xsgbIF5IpM7J+cRApiVAKCAXMcDQ4uNBrBgX7aego8D6to9+gCg2xjU f5/eyTEYTFxlg8Kv/PVmLns= =bJuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--