[ale] Remote XWindows in Linux...

Thompson Freeman tfreeman at tfreeman.vnet.net
Fri Jul 17 10:43:35 EDT 1998


Couple of ways to do get X from here to there.

The easiest for me is simply to run ssh between the two machines because
ssh automatically sets up the magic.

The other way that I know how to do is to run "xhost <othermachine>"
in your X window session, followed by telnet to <othermachine>, and
starting the program with "-display <firstmachine>:0".

There is another way to accomplish this, and I'd appreciate a decent
description of it so I can try and practice.

Hopefully these instructions are complete enough to make sense.



On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Ben Scherrey wrote:

> OK - I've got a couple of RedHat 5.1 machines running but I want to have
> one machine act as an X Terminal for another (which doesn't always have
> a monitor/keyboard hooked up to it). Unfortunately, I can't figure out
> how to make this work. I know that this support is built into X (as a
> reverse client-server mechanism) but I can't figure out how to get it
> operational. Can anyone give me some info on how to do this?
> 
> 	thanx & later,
> 
> 		Ben Scherrey
> 

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