From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 5 11:15: 0 2002 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 C9C7E37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx4.uniserve.ca (mx4.uniserve.ca [216.113.192.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C96243E09 for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:14:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjwsys@uniserve.com) Received: from rob.office.uniserve.ca ([204.244.161.211] helo=rob) by mx4.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.04) id 17QXbb-0000ZB-00; Fri, 05 Jul 2002 11:14:55 -0700 Message-ID: <013e01c2244f$b9c72e50$d3a1f4cc@rob> From: "Robert Westendorp" To: "Michael Sharp" , References: <20020705141340.562ac7d5.freebsd@ec.rr.com> Subject: Re: Remote X Apps Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:13:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Scanner: Scanned in 0.02 seconds OK *17QXbb-0000ZB-00*SCNJQHSuNN6* Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can't run X Apps under windows without an XWindows emulator. The best I've found is Cygwin.. it's great .. you can get Gnome for it and everything. Quite easy to install too :) www.cygwin.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sharp" To: Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: Remote X Apps > I'm on a Internal LAN, and want to run X apps from one of my win boxes. Heres the setup: > > Windows Box = 192.168.1.3 > FreeBSD Box = 192.168.1.2 > Router = 192.168.1.1 > > In sshd-config, I have: > > X11Forwarding yes > X11DisplayOffset 10 > > The Xserver is started with -listen-tcp and echo $DISPLAY shows :0.0 > > Going to the win box, and using putty, I ssh to the FreeBSD Box ( I see no config option in putty so I assume it does X forwarding by Default ), and type: > > xterm & > > I get: Cannot connect to XServer > > If I do: > > export DISPLAY=192.168.1.3:0.0 > > and do: > > xterm & > > xterm starts, but on the FreeBSD Box. I know its insecure, but I also did: > > xhost +192.168.1.3 > > and it still dosent work. > > What am I missing? > > michael > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message