Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (720 mails)

[jrodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joshua Rodmanius)]

> 
> Joshua Rodmanius wrote:
> 
> > To add my useless 2 cents of kibitz (hopefully it will clear things up),
> > SAMBA allows Linux to properly deal with and manage the Windows
> > network filing system (SMB).  It also provides the necessary pieces
> > to speak the windows NetBIOS layer, which can run on top of other
> > protocols, such as TCP/IP, IPX, or NetBEUI.
> > 
> > An X-server is TOTALLY INDEPENDANT.  In order for machines to send X
> > protocol messages back and forth, they have *no need* to access each
> > other's files.  This would be analogous to installing SAMBA just so that
> > you can telnet in.
> > 
> 
> I see, I thought an x-server was just the local display
> server.

Yes. It is. This is what i said.  The X server displays graphics locally
on the machine it is running on.  An X server running on a windows box
displays output from X applications (X clients) on the Windows display.

The point is you can connect to your linux box, and tell the X apps to
direct their output to your Win95 box, thus using guis and whatnot
on another machine.  The programs will run on linux, but you will be
able to use them from 95.  Think of it as a GUI telnet.

If you have further questions about how X works, feel free to e-mail me
(although I am certainly not an expert), but I think you, and I and the
readers of this list would be better served by a good source of
information on X.  Perhaps starting with the XFree86 howto and attendant
documentation.

 
> Also, is this the source of the security breach in X-windows,
> which I have been hearing about?

I believe this is about how X servers generally run as root, and setuid
programs can be tricked into misbehaving at times.

-josh

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