From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 13 03:26:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA25092 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 03:26:22 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it (strider.ibe.net [194.179.130.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA25074 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 03:26:08 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA02781; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:18:11 +0100 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199510131018.LAA02781@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:18:10 +0100 (MET) Cc: combssf@salem.ge.com, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@astral.msk.su In-Reply-To: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 13, 95 00:29:13 am Reply-To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1027 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from David Greenman (Fri Oct 13 08:29:13 1995): > >I've seen the same thing, and not yet been able to figure it out. It's not > >just with FreeBSD, I've seen it on my Sparc at work while trying to display > >on my FBSD box at home! > ... > >> I can succesfully start X-programs logging to main host such as > >> xeys, xftp, etc, but when I start netscape it says that: > >> Can't open display: :0.0 > >> Does anybody have experience on this thing? > > It hasn't ever worked. The only work-around is to specify the IP address of > the server - e.g.: ... Well, it actually works for me. No kidding. I have 3 Netscape running in this moment, one local, one from a Sun, the 3rd one from a 2.0.5 box. My machine is 1.1.5.1. The Sun and the 2.0.5 machines are on the WAN. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY