Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:04:18 -0500 From: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> To: Adam Maas <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> Cc: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: identifying my network address Message-ID: <20030310000418.C53727@skytrackercanada.com> In-Reply-To: <06cf01c2e6b5$476cd8e0$7419cdcd@ticking>; from mykroft@explosive.mail.net on Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:29:38PM -0500 References: <20030309211154.A56130@skytrackercanada.com> <06ad01c2e6ac$822dfad0$7419cdcd@ticking> <20030309222314.B52536@skytrackercanada.com> <06cf01c2e6b5$476cd8e0$7419cdcd@ticking>
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:29:38PM -0500, Adam Maas wrote: > Nope, Your display variable must be set to the IP or hostname of the X > Server, which in this case is the Windows machine. X mangles the > client/server difference, since the box displaying teh window is teh Server > (And specified via DISPLAY) while the remote system running the apps is the > client. I got it. Daxbert suggested the simple 'who' command which I knew before, but discarded becuase it gave me the win machine -name-, but of course to unix, it knows what the IP is and looks it up; $ who dale ttyp0 Mar 7 17:35 (192.168.1.3:0.0) david ttyp2 Mar 9 23:29 (CHANTELLE:0.0) david ttyp3 Mar 9 21:07 (CHANTELLE:0.0) david ttyp4 Mar 9 21:46 (CHANTELLE:0.0) chantelle ttyp5 Mar 9 23:25 (CHANTELLE:0.0) chantelle ttyp7 Mar 9 23:25 (CHANTELLE:0.0) In my case I had five freebsd windows running on CHANTELLE under two different user names. > > To use XWin32 (Ditch it, it's very buggy, eXceed is far superior), you need this is -very- welcome advice, becuase you are right. It is buggy, and I didn't know there was any quality alternatives. thanks - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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