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Date:      Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:33:22 +1030
From:      Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au>
To:        Hugo Saro <h_saro@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x question
Message-ID:  <20021206020322.GA94749@adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20021206015330.65406.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20021206015330.65406.qmail@web11804.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 05:53:30PM -0800, Hugo Saro wrote:
> Is it possible to 'startx' and view the graphical
> environment from a windows workstation connected to a
> freebsd box? if yes, how?

Not directly; when you run startx it will run an X server on the
freebsd box and that will only display stuff on a directly connected
monitor..

What you need to do is run an X server on the windows machine, then
set the DISPLAY environment variable on the freebsd box to something
like "windowsbox:0.0" (or tunnel it through ssh).  The only x server
for windows I know of is eXcursion, but there may be others.

HTH,

-tim

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