Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:51:31 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Message-ID: <454383989.1048297891@lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de> In-Reply-To: <20030322002359.GA75577@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030321005450.GA28061@wantadilla.lemis.com> <AMEMKJNMFLJCJDLFIEDBCELMCMAA.aburke@nullplusone.com> <20030322002359.GA75577@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Hi, sorry I missed the beginning of this thread, so I jump in between. > Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work > from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have 2 > boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a full > blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just > has a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the > OpenBSD box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be > able to ssh into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever > I wanted...but no dice. Can someone help me out? You probably want to look at the -x and -X options of ssh and make sure the sshd on your FreeBSD box is configured to allow X tunneling. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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