Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:49:24 +0400 From: Igor Roboul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 Sessions over Network Message-ID: <20000922104924.A3640@linux.rainbow> In-Reply-To: <000b01c02458$5dee6380$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>; from iwaldron@WPI.EDU on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:45:51AM -0400 References: <000b01c02458$5dee6380$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:45:51AM -0400, Isaac Waldron wrote: > This probably isn't the right list to ask, but I can't think of another > place to ask it. My desktop is running FreeBSD 4.1 Stable from late last > week, and I already have XFree-3.3.6 installed and setup. My university has > Maple installed on their servers. Is there a way I can use my machine as an > X terminal to one of their servers so that I can run Maple from my desktop > without going to a lab? Yes. on your PC say "xhost +your.university.host.edu" then telnet to university machine and say "setenv DISPLAY your.host.isp.com:0" Then you can start Mapple. And of course you need fast net connection for this. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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