Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:25:10 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> To: Kutulu <kutulu@kutulu.org> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: home pc use Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111201124080.27830-100000@sun08pg2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <02b501c171de$93484530$88682518@longhill1.md.home.com>
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> XWin32 is a very nice Win32 server, that supports one feature of the X > system that I didn't find in other products. It can log into a remote > system running xdm (or clone) via XDMCP. The means you can connect > to, log into, and run applications on the remote system without having > to fire off a shell first and start any window managers. > Unfortunately, XWin32 runs about $250 for a single user lisence. I > haven't figured out how to do the same in XFree86 yet, but I also > didn't try very hard, as I now prefer to tunnel X stuff through my ssh > session. To do this in XFree86 simply type this on the commandline: X -query hostname -once This will do an XDMCP query to the machine "hostname" Change the hostname to query a different machine. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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