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Date:      Sat, 22 Mar 2003 01:51:31 +0100
From:      Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote X from another BSD Box
Message-ID:  <454383989.1048297891@lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030322002359.GA75577@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <20030321005450.GA28061@wantadilla.lemis.com> <AMEMKJNMFLJCJDLFIEDBCELMCMAA.aburke@nullplusone.com> <20030322002359.GA75577@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Hi,
sorry I missed the beginning of this thread, so I jump in between.


> 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?

You probably want to look at the -x and -X options of ssh and make sure the 
sshd on your FreeBSD box is configured to allow X tunneling.

Ciao
Siegbert



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