From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 9 03:55:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA07144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA07127 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 16395 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Feb 1999 08:07:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19990209080717.16394.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 18:07:16 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: Mirror Beastie , Andrzej Szydlo , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: multiple networked X sessions References: <36BEA474.AFEEB731@askas.co.za> <19990208202405.14002.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990208214922.A25286@ca.sandia.gov> In-reply-to: <19990208214922.A25286@ca.sandia.gov> of Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:49:22 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [resent due to pilot error, sorry, gjb!] I got it about three times, but didn't take much note of the headers ... > > Your terminology is a bit fuzzy here, so it's difficult to know > > what you mean. If you want to have the xdm (or equivalent) on > > the other host run in a window on the first host, you can't do > > that. But why would you want it anyway? > > One reason might be that you've got a bunch of windows on a machine in > one location (at work, say), and you somewhere else (home, perhaps) > and you want to be able to access all of those same windows remotely. Okay, I didn't think of that scenario -- probably because it horrifies me from security reasons. I would never leave a machine unattended that I was logged in to, unless it was in a secure room under my control, and then there'd be no need for this kind of trick. But, for people who either don't need to worry about the security implications or who don't care about them, this sounds like an interesting solution. > PS. Should you have a need to remote a Windoze screen, you can do > that too. Not in a trillion years! -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message