From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 9 21: 4:23 2003 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 1C5B637B401 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:04:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 289AF43F75 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2A556ui027134; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:05:06 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h2A54Ide054056; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:04:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2A54IAj054030; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:04:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2A54IQu054029; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:04:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:04:18 -0500 From: David Banning To: Adam Maas Cc: David Banning , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <20030310000418.C53727@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030309211154.A56130@skytrackercanada.com> <06ad01c2e6ac$822dfad0$7419cdcd@ticking> <20030309222314.B52536@skytrackercanada.com> <06cf01c2e6b5$476cd8e0$7419cdcd@ticking> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <06cf01c2e6b5$476cd8e0$7419cdcd@ticking>; from mykroft@explosive.mail.net on Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:29:38PM -0500 X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 - (http://pldaniels.com/inflex/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) 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 On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:29:38PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > Nope, Your display variable must be set to the IP or hostname of the X > Server, which in this case is the Windows machine. X mangles the > client/server difference, since the box displaying teh window is teh Server > (And specified via DISPLAY) while the remote system running the apps is the > client. I got it. Daxbert suggested the simple 'who' command which I knew before, but discarded becuase it gave me the win machine -name-, but of course to unix, it knows what the IP is and looks it up; $ who dale ttyp0 Mar 7 17:35 (192.168.1.3:0.0) david ttyp2 Mar 9 23:29 (CHANTELLE:0.0) david ttyp3 Mar 9 21:07 (CHANTELLE:0.0) david ttyp4 Mar 9 21:46 (CHANTELLE:0.0) chantelle ttyp5 Mar 9 23:25 (CHANTELLE:0.0) chantelle ttyp7 Mar 9 23:25 (CHANTELLE:0.0) In my case I had five freebsd windows running on CHANTELLE under two different user names. > > To use XWin32 (Ditch it, it's very buggy, eXceed is far superior), you need this is -very- welcome advice, becuase you are right. It is buggy, and I didn't know there was any quality alternatives. thanks - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message