Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-19 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: [...] > X has problems with masquerading because the remote end initiates > the port connection. If you use redir to redirect the port, you can > only support X on one machine inside the firewall. Well, you _could_ redirect port 6001 on the firewall to p

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-18 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Found it: type "xhost remote.addr" on the local machine before telneting > > to it. > > This means *any* user on that machine can use your machine to do > things like snooping on passwords you type or sending

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-18 Thread Carey Evans
Tim Thomson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Found it: type "xhost remote.addr" on the local machine before telneting > to it. This means *any* user on that machine can use your machine to do things like snooping on passwords you type or sending "M-! rm -rf ." to your Emacs. Something I used to use

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread bn711
On 16 Jan, Rick Jones wrote: > I beleive it's "startx -query remotehost" or "startx -- -query > remotehost" I forget which one. But the localhost has to be authorized > to login to the remote in the "/etc/X11/xdm/access" file first. > As far as I know, you can't use startx (or for that matter xi

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the sun station is running a sshd daemon you could start a remote session > with e.g.: > > [linux]$ xterm -title Your_University -e ssh \ > -l YourUsername sunstation.at.college.edu > > In this new xtern you can start every X app and the v

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Frank Barknecht
Adalberto da Silva hat gesagt: // Adalberto da Silva wrote: > Hello! > > I have access to my university's Sun workstations via ppp connection > with my a dynamic IP. > > I can contact reach the internal network with ftp or telnet and work at > prompt mode at every machine I have perm

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Tim Thomson
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: > Tim: > > Letting you know that it is not the /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess file that > allows access from remote clients. Found it: type "xhost remote.addr" on the local machine before telneting to it. I can't try it cause I'm behind a IP-MASK'ed firewall. Got to

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
Tim: Letting you know that it is not the /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess file that allows access from remote clients. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
Tim Thomson wrote: > You also have to tell your local machine that the remote can access the > display, else the server can't connect to the client. > Can't remember the file to config, haven't done this for awhile. > > I want to do this again, with IP-masquerading, I have a 486 behind a 386, > an

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Tim Thomson
On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Rick Jones wrote: > Absoluetely. If you are running an X server locally you can telnet > over, set DISPLAY=machine:0 in the environment and start any X program > and the display will be put on your local server. You also have to tell your local machine that the remote can ac

Re: Remote X-term

1998-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
Adalberto da Silva wrote: > > Hello! > > I have access to my university's Sun workstations via ppp connection > with my a dynamic IP. > > I can contact reach the internal network with ftp or telnet and work > at > prompt mode at every machine I have permission. > > Is t