From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 18 15:32:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F077B37B401; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:31:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA08405; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:01:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:01:31 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Kris Kirby Subject: Re: X forwarding Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, j mckitrick Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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