Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:34:17 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Connecting to an Openwin session Message-ID: <20020324183417.A20820@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20020323162817.GA14652@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:28:17PM %2B0000 References: <20020323162817.GA14652@submonkey.net>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 04:28:17PM +0000, Ceri wrote:
>
> hey all,
>
> I've got a sparcstation running Solaris 2.6, and I noticed that on the
> Openwin login screen, there's an option to log into remote hosts.
> Presumably this means that if I had two such machines then I'd be able
> to use one to log into openwin on the other.
>
> So my FreeBSD question is, is there any software I can use to connect
> and login to openwin on the sparcstation from my FreeBSD machine ?
Check out the Xserver man page. When you start up an Xserver on your
FreeBSD box, you can supply a "-query hostname" (hostname being
your Solaris box's hostname), and you should come up with the Openwin
login screen of your Solaris box. eg:
startx -- -query hostname
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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