Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 04:42:31 -0700 From: "Robert Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: bright@rush.net, rseals@vdsi.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE/X/FreeBSD question Message-ID: <s759fc5e.055@usgs.gov>
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If you connect to your remote machine with ssh it automatically sets your DISPLAY env for you, so all you have to do is run xhost + name-or-ip.of .remote.machine >>> Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> 6/4/99 3:10:35 PM >>> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Ray Seals wrote: > I use a FreeBSD 3.1 machine at work as my workstation. I'm running Xfree86 on > it with KDE. I need to connect to the HP Openview box to pull up our pretty > pictures. I have tried just using xterm to get to the box but I can't get > Openview to come up. I assume that this is because term type issues. > > What client can I use to access other Xservers from within KDE? for some reason I belive you have user error going on here. check points: after you telnet into the box with HP openview do you: 1) have the "DISPLAY" enviornment variable set "yourmachine:0" setenv DISPLAY your.ip.here.ok:0 i -or- export DISPLAY=your.ip.here.ok:0 Have you given access to the remote machine? on the freebsd box open an xterm and type: xhost name.of.box.with.openview.on.it (you may want to investigate "xauth" (man xauth) for better security) When using X applications it is important to remeber to set the DISPLAY variable on the remote machine running the application, and allow access on the machine running the graphics via xhost or xauth. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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