From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 19:40:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA3637B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:40:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au (yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.41.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BAAD43F85 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@lost.net.au) Received: from yomiko.its.adelaide.edu.au (yomiko.its.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.55.149]) by yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h2K3eC826456; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:10:12 +1030 Received: by yomiko.its.adelaide.edu.au (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:10:23 +1030 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:10:23 +1030 From: Tim Peters To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box Message-ID: <20030320034023.GD3265@adelaide.edu.au> References: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003d01c2ee8d$bdc503c0$2f811581@garfield> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organisation: The University of Adelaide Phone: +61-8-8303-6210 Fax: +61-8-8303-4829 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/42FCC987 X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: 132E 55C7 E07D 249D C617 F1B9 56C6 95A2 42FC C987 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:06:45PM -0500, Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'd imagine this would be fairly simple since I got it to work > from Xmanager for Windows...but I'm having difficulties. I have 2 > boxes, both BSD (one FreeBSD, one OpenBSD). The FreeBSD box has a full > blown install of X with KDE and all kinds of stuff, the OpenBSD just has > a basic X installed with xdm. I'd like to be able to use the OpenBSD > box as a display for the FreeBSD box. I thought I'd just be able to ssh > into the FreeBSD box and run xmms, xcalc, xterm, whatever I wanted...but > no dice. Can someone help me out? Connect with something like: openbsd.box% ssh -X user@freebsd.box Then just start your favourite X applications, and they will display on the OpenBSD machine like you want. If that doesn't work, add '-v' to the ssh options to see what goes wrong. HTH, -tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message