From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 23:49:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB4A37B422 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19064 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:08:17 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8M6nON03937 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:49:24 +0400 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:49:24 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X11 Sessions over Network Message-ID: <20000922104924.A3640@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000b01c02458$5dee6380$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <000b01c02458$5dee6380$98e5d782@res.WPI.NET>; from iwaldron@WPI.EDU on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:45:51AM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP X-Best-Window-Manager: Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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