Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 04:45:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: combssf@salem.ge.com, hackers@freebsd.org, ache@astral.msk.su Subject: Re: Problems with remote Netscape2.0.. Message-ID: <199510150845.EAA00393@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199510130729.AAA00690@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Oct 13, 95 00:29:13 am
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> > >I've seen the same thing, and not yet been able to figure it out. It's not > >just with FreeBSD, I've seen it on my Sparc at work while trying to display > >on my FBSD box at home! > ... > >> I can succesfully start X-programs logging to main host such as > >> xeys, xftp, etc, but when I start netscape it says that: > >> Can't open display: <my_host_name>:0.0 > >> Does anybody have experience on this thing? > > It hasn't ever worked. The only work-around is to specify the IP address of > the server - e.g.: > > setenv DISPLAY 198.76.54.32:0.0 Works for me. Thanks. Much nicer than the old Mosaic; I guess I should put a FreeBSD system down in the house now. Unfortunately that means braving this world of DOS/Windows/FreeBSD partitions that I've managed to avoid up til now. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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