From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 14:41: 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 143FE37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34A5E43E6E for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 14:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drs@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 98591 invoked from network); 2 Aug 2002 21:40:52 -0000 Received: from bashir.dsl.ru.ac.za (146.231.113.19) by server.rucus.ru.ac.za with SMTP; 2 Aug 2002 21:40:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 2812 invoked by uid 1001); 2 Aug 2002 21:40:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:40:52 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= To: "Philip M. Gollucci" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and XFree86 Message-ID: <20020802214052.GB2742@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <3D4AE6B5.4010205@p6m7g8.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3D4AE6B5.4010205@p6m7g8.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 Fri 2002-08-02 (16:08), Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > I'got a 192.168.1.* network setup and running with a Linksys DSL/Router. > > Computer 129 is my personal workstation running FBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p2 > FreeBSD p6m7g8 4.6-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sun Jul 14 > 15:34:39 GMT 2002 philip@p6m7g8:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PHILIP i386 > > Computer 2 is a webserver running FBSD 4.5-RELEASE > FreeBSD web 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Sun Jun 23 18:45:25 EST > 2002 philip@web.p6m7g8.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/PHILIP i386 > > Both have XFree86 installed > (2) 3.8.6 > (129) 4.2.1 > > workstation% xhost +192.168.1.2 That won't have any effect unless you've started your X server using "startx -listen_tcp". > webserver% setenv DISPLAY 192.168.1.129:0.0 ( w/ssh I shouldn't have to) No, you shouldn't - ssh should set DISPLAY to something like "localhost:10.0". Are you sure you've enabled X forwarding on the ssh client and sshd? If you get it working, you won't need to use xhost or -listen_tcp on your workstation. -- David Siebörger drs@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message