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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


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