From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 21 16:51:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DE237B401 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:51:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6897443FB1 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2M0pGIM019791 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:51:16 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:51:31 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude 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> <20030322002359.GA75577@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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