From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 11:17:58 2002 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 3A71C37B405 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7033743E1F for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:17:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA24369; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:17:49 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1DF9CC.1050507@owt.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:17:48 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Rocho Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x-server remote connection problem References: <29413.1025373769@www15.gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jan Rocho wrote: > Hi! > > There is another X-Problem. I have two computers, one running Linux and the > other running FreeBSD. When I ssh into my linux system and do > export DISPLAY="192.168.1.2:0" and then start an application I get a > conncetion error message. It can't connect to the X-Server on my FreeBSD system. I > have however allowed all connections to the X-Server (xhost +). So that should > work. Then I portscanned my FreeBSD system and found out that there is no > Port for the X-Server open. How do get around that problem? I am not sure at this point but I usually have to "xhost other_computer" before it will start the xterm on the other computer. Kent > > Thanks, > > Jan > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message