Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:52:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Stephen A Derdau <sderdau@ne.mediaone.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Networking X (was: 2nd machine xwindow) Message-ID: <19981110155234.A499@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3647A708.4EA36F84@ne.mediaone.net>; from Stephen A Derdau on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 09:38:00PM -0500 References: <3647A708.4EA36F84@ne.mediaone.net>
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On Monday, 9 November 1998 at 21:38:00 -0500, Stephen A Derdau wrote: > I'm running X on 1st machine. > I open a xterm window and telnet to a 2nd machine. > I telnet to a 2nd machine . > can I run xwindow stuff off of the 2nd machine ? Yes. You can start an xterm on the remote machine, too, so you don't need telnet. > For example the 2nd machine may have > a command-tool to set up the printer > however I go to use it and get a few errors to the > effect of: > > Xlib: connection to "my.host.com:0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > ** WARNING **: cannot open display: my.host.com:0.0 You need to run xhost. Put this at the beginning of your .xinitrc on machine1: xhost machine2 > I'm running freebsd 2.2.7 on the 1st machine. > > linux 5.1 on the 2nd machine. That shouldn't make any difference. I assume you're running XFree86 on both machines. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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