From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 19:48:25 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 9FDAF37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:48:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from vms1.rit.edu (vms1.isc.rit.edu [129.21.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC5843F3F for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:48:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjm1287@ritvax.isc.rit.edu) Received: from garfield ([129.21.129.47]) by ritvax.isc.rit.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #30660) with ESMTPA id <01KTQ4HVOPNEVBI2KF@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:47:43 EST Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 22:49:37 -0500 From: Brian McCann Subject: RE: Remote X from another BSD Box In-reply-to: <20030320034023.GD3265@adelaide.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <004501c2ee93$baaba710$2f811581@garfield> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Thanks guys, -X worked great! KDE on my Sun box now. :) Now all I need is a non-optical Sun mouse, and to try NetBSD so I can use SMP. :) --Brian -----Original Message----- From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim@lost.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:40 PM To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote X from another BSD Box 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