From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 18 23:44:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 881A014C93 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 23:44:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10k05t-0002ax-0B; Wed, 19 May 1999 06:44:46 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from support-3.uk.radan.com (support-3 [193.114.228.220]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id HAA01612; Wed, 19 May 1999 07:44:13 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com by support-3.uk.radan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA07096; Wed, 19 May 1999 07:44:11 +0100 Message-ID: <37425D6B.ABFE8D5E@uk.radan.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 07:42:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: youlgok@ibm.net Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: X connection forwarding References: <374256F7.6DD838D9@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG youlgok@ibm.net wrote: > > This is my situation. I connet to the net with DHCP. I have to comment > out 'hostname=...' in /etc/rc.conf. > (How can I have a hostname, anyway?) > > When I tried to connect to a remote host and open a xterm or other X > applications, it says 'Error: Can't open display' message. > > I set: > > #setenv DISPLAY unix:0.0 > > and it didn't work. I also set hostname by > > #hostname Foobar > > and tried again > > #setenv DISPLAY Foobar > > and it still doen't work. > > What I want to do is to connect to a remote system and open X > applications on the local X server(my FreeBSD box). > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. > man xhost > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message