Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:07:03 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> To: "dick hoogendijk" <dhoogendijk@demarskramer.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X server remote login Message-ID: <539c60b90612111207s31bebbc0nbc82956cbc2136a1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1165691646.3362.4.camel@arwen> References: <1165691646.3362.4.camel@arwen>
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I'm a noob myself, but I just did this, so: 1) edit etc/ttys, so the 8th one has xdm and change the no to yes in the second to last field (test by rebooting, should go to an x login, after a slight pasue) ctrl-alt-f<n> will still get you back to the text terminals. 2) edit the .Xaccess file in the location specified for xdm in the handbook, add a "LISTEN *" line. 3) edit the xdm-config file, and uncomment that last line that says xdm shouldn't look outside. 4) We use Xming and OpenSSH to connect from windows - configure Xming for the ssh login method, and tell it to run a program, namely "gnome-seesion", "xfce4-session", or "xterm" depending on how much X you want. I'll send you my Xming launcher file if you like. Thoughts - make sure you can run startx normally on the machine, and logon once with raw ssh so it can do the key thing and store it - doesn't seem to work from Xming that first time. I'm aauming you are connecting from windows. On another freebsd box, one would assume it's easier thanconfiguring xming. best, Steve On 12/9/06, dick hoogendijk <dhoogendijk@demarskramer.nl> wrote: > > I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine > with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have no idea > where the config to make this possible resides on FreeBSD. I guess X > runs without broadcasting itself on fbsd. How can I change this? > > -- > http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE > ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089
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