Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

[James (Jim) Hatridge <hatridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all...

First thanks for all of your notes, but I see that I did not give enough info. 

#1 I don't do windows! <G> 

Both of my Linux boxes are sitting here in front of me on my home lan. I'm at
the command line of system A. B is headless. I want to telnet or ssh (or
whatever) to system B. Run X there and have it display on A's screen. I'm using
SuSE 6.3 on both systems. 

At the command line "xhost" does not work I get an error. When I telnet (or
ssh, I tried both) to B. I run "export DISPLAY=A:0", then "startx". On A's
screen I get all the X messages, but no GUI. Just to see I put another screen
on B and did all this again. I got all the messages etc on A's screen and the
GUI came up on B's screen. 

So any ideas?

TIA!

JIM


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Rouvas Stathis wrote:
> Try : <ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/X11/mix/> for a free X server on Win and
> Mac.
> -Stathis.
> 
> Geordon VanTassle wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, SSH it a better bet as far as security goes, but that doesn't address
> > the question of running X apps on Windows.  There are no free* or OSS
> > X-servers for WIndows that I've run across.  There are some COMMERCIAL ones,
> > (Netmanage, Exceed, etc...).
> > 
> > However, it you're going from *nix to *nix, it's pretty straight forward, as I
> > recall.
> > 
> > Mikolaj Maciejak <kangoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > 
> > > Hmm perhaps i'm wrong but u SHOULD consider security first ... Please
> > > avoid using telnet at all , it's highly unsecure etc.
> > > Yes we actually use such program (that allows u to telnet X-sessions) but
> > > we only use it on our LAN , never on the internet. (to telnet local Unix
> > > machines)
> > > As far as i can remember it's written for windows/NT , i can't remember
> > > it's name , but I can refresh my memory if u really want me to ,
> > > But anyway try using SSH :>
> > >
> > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi all..
> > > >
> > > > Could someone tell me (small words, big pictues <G>) how to run X-windows
> > in
> > > > telnet? IE I'm on system A and want X on system B.
> > > >
> > > > TIA!

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