From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Dec 29 11:17:16 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D0616A403
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:17:16 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com)
Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.224])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F090913C448
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:17:15 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com)
Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so4591378wxc
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:17:15 -0800 (PST)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition;
	b=KZIBWJ/dqt2Qzb8uMgtvNZ+SEyllsrfbloDpM27Hg5y7J5cfxT3o0WFrSoTpJtsqbw1ijjMkAc9rJyH0P4Q2RBjNkkz7B0FK5FF17B4Ob8qTDHhTC/lSL+bHqW3TworrnOiyFIANVlRh8aG5zeQL7rTRxUbQlP75elQRV3V/gJ8=
Received: by 10.70.73.12 with SMTP id v12mr18386434wxa.1167390662961;
	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:11:02 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.70.14.20 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:11:02 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <14989d6e0612290311o6174782i9587286860bd177@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:11:02 +0100
From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Subject: Unable to connect to remote X server using X -query
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:17:16 -0000

Hi there,

I'm on

$ uname -a
FreeBSD pixie.alashan.dyndns.org 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD
6.1-RELEASE-p10 #1: Thu Nov 16 17:15:03 CET 2006
root@pixie.alashan.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIXIE  i386

running

$ pkg_info|grep ^xorg-server
xorg-server-6.9.0_5 X.Org X server and related programs

I set up two of my machines in my network to allow remote logins  via
xdm and gdm. Both are Linux machines, one is a current Ubuntu release
running gdm, the other one a decent Debian/testing running xdm. I'd
like to connect to both machines using the command

$ X -query <ip> -fp tcp/<ip>:7100

The X-Server starts, but it justs sits there, displaying the default
background. After a certain period of time the server is restarted,
without any error message on the console or in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
I checked the xdm/gdm configuration a couple of times, but I can use
any other none FreeBSD-host in my network to successfully connect to
the Display Manager on both machines. I even checked this with a
NetBSD machine.
I browsed through the manual and the FAQs, but I didn't find any
section that gave me a clue of what is going on. There is no Firewall
configured on my FreeBSD machine, and there is no security level set:

# sysctl -h kern.securelevel
kern.securelevel: -1

X runs just fine when being executed locally, either via startx or via
/etc/ttys using xdm.

Did I miss something?

Regards
Christian