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
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