From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 07:11:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 47D2816A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:11:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from aseed.antenna.nl (213-84-107-7.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.107.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC34443D2D for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 07:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from albi@saynotomicrosoft.org) Received: by aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C52C61A2; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:10:57 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:10:57 +0100 From: albi@saynotomicrosoft.org To: Jonathon McKitrick Message-ID: <20040122151057.GA3765@aseed.antenna.nl> References: <20040122145353.GB54084@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040122145353.GB54084@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote X display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:11:03 -0000 On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:53:53PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > All I want to do is use a laptop in a local network to be an X client > connected to a more powerful desktop machine. I'm not worried about > security. > > Is xhosts and the DISPLAY variable all I need? Or do I need to go through > all of the xdm configuration hoops? you can do the following : run gdm on the server, start gdmconfig as root, enable XDMCP then on the client start X as following : X -query ipaddress_of_your_server