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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:40 PM To: Brian McCann Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
