Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 10:54:37 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: allynh@avsi.com (Allyn Hardyck) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacX Message-ID: <9508171654.AA12709@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199508170222.WAA08030@jupiter.avsi.com> from "Allyn Hardyck" at Aug 16, 95 10:22:26 pm
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> How can I get my FreeBSD machine to accept requests to generate X > windows and send them back to a Mac running MacX? > > - Doing an "rsh fbsd-machine xterm -display fbsd-machine2..." on > fbsd-machine2 works, where both machine and machine2 are running > FreeBSD and fbsd-machine2 is in fbsd-machine's .rhosts. The program "xrsh" is superior for this application, but rsh works. > - Having a telnet window open to fbsd-machine on a Mac and running the > xterm back from there to the Mac works, if MacX is up on the Mac. > (i.e. not a problem with MacX) > > - Opening a window from inside MacX to a non-FreeBSD machine > works, using MacTCP Tool to send the name, password and display > information. (i.e. not a problem with MacX's password-passing > functions) I don't understand exactly what you are doing here. Are you consuming display services of an X server running on a FreeBSD machine using an X client on your Mac? This is the only scenario that makes sense for "Opening a window from inside MacX". This will work within the bounds of allowable host connections to the X server (ie: X0.hosts vs. the xhost command). > What doesn't work is opening a window from inside MacX to a > local FreeBSD machine. I'm assuming it's being paranoid about > stuff happening on not well known ports; a good thing, but how > do I selectively turn it off? What exactly happens when you "open a window from inside MacX"? Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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