On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Brian McCann wrote: > 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 Just to throw in some 0.01 ¤ : If you can spare some time, have a look at /usr/ports/vnc . You can not only access X-Servers on different UN*X platforms, but also Windows machines via any JAVA capable Browser.
Regards and sorry for interfering, Uli. > > -----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 > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
