Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:01:31 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Kris Kirby <kris@catonic.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Subject: Re: X forwarding Message-ID: <XFMail.010119100131.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101182252570.56691-100000@spaz.huntsvilleal.com>
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On 18-Jan-01 Kris Kirby wrote: > > I get a bit of a delay, then nothing. > > Try xterm instead; netscape requires quite a bit of thinking and > bandwidth. IIRC, the order was correct: > > local% xhost +remote.ip.or.name > > (for [t]csh) > remote% setenv DISPLAY my.local.ip.or.name:0 > > > What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't I just see netscape open up and starting > > running, just like usual, only slower? > > Depends on what kind of bandwidth you have. Well, handy tip number 1.. xhost authentication sucks :) If you login using xdm you get xauth authentication which is slightly safer.. You can also use ssh which can forward X connections over the secure tunnel and it can compress the stream which can speed it up over slow links. Admittedly your xhost example should have worked however.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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