From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 11:27:24 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 2787337B400 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:27:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout01.sul.t-online.com (mailout01.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D1CF43E09 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:27:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from fwd06.sul.t-online.de by mailout01.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17OMwJ-0002lA-04; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:27:19 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.228.211.185]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17OMw4-0C1TaSC; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:27:04 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5TIRpBQ050586; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:27:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200206291827.g5TIRpBQ050586@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: Kent Stewart Cc: Jan Rocho , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: x-server remote connection problem Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Jun 2002 11:17:48 PDT." <3D1DF9CC.1050507@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 20:27:51 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net 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 Kent Stewart writes: > > > 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 sy > stem. I > > have however allowed all connections to the X-Server (xhost +). So that sho > uld > > 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. > Another possiblity, if you use startx to start X, is that the server was started with "-nolisten tcp". If that's the case then you have to do ``startx -listen_tcp'' to avoid that. It's documented in the startx manpage. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message