From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 14 05:59:53 2005 Return-Path: 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 A92E916A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:59:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AAB243D2D for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:59:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so1789363rng for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:59:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=peyPIXcBoXckveM4mV1SLXsa/N6nat0QScUzuS1KR8/xUVyjQj6BZ1g+AaYwZnvNbrZ0nKJFzYKduPptcxJ/jXdcF7meAYC0Ud3sCp2uZr6LuDptNEjLL9iPKHPfASjV8HxqW2+n8dq+kykBAXYbResWzazX9cVfselv+2bJhOs= Received: by 10.38.90.36 with SMTP id n36mr1437485rnb; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.23 with HTTP; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:52:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:52:39 +0100 From: Gert Cuykens To: Martin Schweizer , Bart Silverstrim , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050314053801.GD46872@saturn.pcs.ms> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050313181048.GC46872@saturn.pcs.ms> <20050314053801.GD46872@saturn.pcs.ms> Subject: Re: How to remote contact x server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 05:59:53 -0000 On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:38:01 +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote: > Hello Bart > > Am Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:20:14PM -0500 Bart Silverstrim schrieb: > > > > On Mar 13, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Martin Schweizer wrote: > > > > >Hello > > > > > >I've two X server: a client and a server. How I can contact from the > > >client > > >the server (I read some articles but did not find a solution)? I can > > >successfully start X applications over SSH but I can't contact the > > >xdm. What > > >do I wrong? > > > > What do you mean? If you're starting the X app on the remote system > > using X-forwarding with ssh, you're running a remote application using > > the remote system's CPU and memory. If you're trying to do something > > like open a whole X session on the remote system like a remote > > terminal, something like a "remote desktop", you'd probably need to > > look into using something like VNC over SSH or something using XNest > > may work. > > Now I can start remote applications (like OpenOffice) remote without problems. > My goals are to use a "remote desktop" (like you describe). Is there a VNC > server for X? > > -- > > Regards > > Martin Schweizer > > > PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon > Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch; > public key : http://www.pc-service.ch/pgp/public_key.asc; > fingerprint: EC21 CA4D 5C78 BC2D 73B7 10F9 C1AE 1691 D30F D239; > oh oh i think i know this one :) First you do xhost +(ip adress) on the server then xdm (ip adress)