Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 03:34:34 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Mony Nedkov <mnedkov@home.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connecting xwin32 to FeeBSD Message-ID: <20020521013434.GC39869@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> In-Reply-To: <000501c1fffd$1e122940$2c01a8c0@freakko> References: <000501c1fffd$1e122940$2c01a8c0@freakko>
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Mony Nedkov writes: >Like I said I just installed it, and now I would like to connect a >Windows-based computer to FreeBSD, using xwin32. Can you help me do it? >I tried to connect with Telnet and that worked, but with xwin32 I get >errors. I could really use your help! Xwin32 is a (commercial) X11 display server for Windows. If you don't want to dive into the nethers of XDMCP right now, then just find out how to add your freebsd machine to the list of IP addresses that are allowed to connect to Xwin32 (or leave it blank, it should allow any then, can't quite remember the details from last time I used it), then log into your freebsd machine via ssh or telnet (a free ssh client, putty, is available for Windows), set the DISPLAY environment variable (DISPLAY=winmachine:0; export DISPLAY for the Bourne shell or compatibles, or setenv DISPLAY winmachine:0 for csh, the display and/or screen number on winmachine may be different but the default is :0.0, or :0 as a shorthand) and then fire up the X application you want. Note that certain X11 extensions like XSHM or 3d acceleration etc. are not available (same as with any X terminal) and some programs may barf about it but generally any well-written application should work just as if you were running it on a local display. You can configure Xwin32 to either treat each window as a seperate window on the host (windows) machine, or to pop up a virtual desktop with its own root window, in which you could run a full X session (i.e., including programs that paint the root window etc., run the remote machine's window manager on it etc.) I personally normally prefer the first method, since it integrates better into the Windows desktop; the X11 windows are decorated by Windows, the other method feels more "virtual machine" like. --mkb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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