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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:52:39 +0100
From:      Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com>
To:        Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch>, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to remote contact x server
Message-ID:  <ef60af090503132152364b385@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050314053801.GD46872@saturn.pcs.ms>
References:  <20050313181048.GC46872@saturn.pcs.ms> <b0f79b540d5fa545ff4f583e33d7ae84@chrononomicon.com> <20050314053801.GD46872@saturn.pcs.ms>

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:38:01 +0100, Martin Schweizer
<lists_freebsd@bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Hello Bart
> 
> Am Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:20:14PM -0500 Bart Silverstrim schrieb:
> >
> > On Mar 13, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Martin Schweizer wrote:
> >
> > >Hello
> > >
> > >I've two X server: a client and a server. How I can contact from the
> > >client
> > >the server (I read some articles but did not find a solution)? I can
> > >successfully start X applications over SSH but I can't contact the
> > >xdm. What
> > >do I wrong?
> >
> > What do you mean?  If you're starting the X app on the remote system
> > using X-forwarding with ssh, you're running a remote application using
> > the remote system's CPU and memory.  If you're trying to do something
> > like open a whole X session on the remote system like a remote
> > terminal, something like a "remote desktop", you'd probably need to
> > look into using something like VNC over SSH or something using XNest
> > may work.
> 
> Now I can start remote applications (like OpenOffice) remote without problems.
> My goals are to use a "remote desktop" (like you describe). Is there a VNC
> server for X?
> 
> --
> 
> Regards
> 
> Martin Schweizer
> <info@pc-service.ch>
> 
> PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH; Bannholzstrasse 6; CH-8608 Bubikon
> Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch;
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> 

oh oh i think i know this one :) First you do xhost +(ip adress) on
the server then xdm (ip adress)



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