On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:27:05PM -0500, Sean wrote: > <--snip--> > >>Many people never use a networked X... > <--snip--> > > I'm never to sure what to think about this .... the functionality is there, > has been for ages, but you never really hear much about it. And yet at work > (a microsoft house) we spend quite a bit of money, time, and effort > connecting to other people's PCs so we can solve problems, etc. > > Seems like there should be a question here ... but I can't really think of > one ... I just always find feel a little odd when running X on my desktop, > while totally ignoring the whole networking functionality that I know exists. > > Anyway ... just a ramble, feel free to disgregard.
It's pretty simple. Here I am on a home network of 1 computer. Why would I need networked X? Now, say I have DSL, and don't know anything about firewalling off port 6000-7. Potentially, someone could try to hijack my X session (really don't know if this happens to often). Now, if X is running as root... One of these days I'll get this old PowerPC booted up with GNU/Linux and play with X networking... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
