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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:58:17 -0400
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        'Khetan Gajjar' <khetan@os.org.za>, Sabre <sabre@sabre.dhs.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Huming Bird Exceed with FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CC1@site2s1>

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Why does he need to go through all these contortions?  Why can't he just
use:

setenv DISPLAY win98_box:0.0

That's what I do, and just run the X apps I want to run.  Of course this is
on an internal lan where security isn't an issue.

-Chris

P.S. replace win98_box with the actual name of the box.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Khetan Gajjar [SMTP:khetan@link.freebsd.os.org.za]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 30, 1999 6:35 PM
> To:	Sabre
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Re: Huming Bird Exceed with FreeBSD?
> 
> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Sabre wrote:
> 
> >Ok al, I have this now I want to use it :)  How do I configure Xstart so
> I
> >can have the Xwindows desktop on my as a window in Win98?  What files do
> I
> >have to change on the FBSD system?  TIA!
> 
> This is a XFree86 question, not specifically a FreeBSD
> question.
> 
> But to answer it, you need to be running xdm on your FreeBSD box.
> If you're particular about security, edit 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
> to specify who can access what.
> 
> If you don't want a local session running, edit 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
> and basically hash it all out.
> 
> Then, in Exceed, you can connect by either specifying XDMCP or
> directly specifying the host name. I last used Exceed a while
> ago, so I don't know what the options are.
> 
> PS. Please don't post to multiple lists. It's Bad (TM).
> --- 
> Khetan Gajjar       (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za
> http://www.os.org.za/~khetan  * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za
> FreeBSD enthusiast            * http://www2.za.freebsd.org/
> Stupidest quote heard : Who is this BSD, and why should we free him ?


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