ssh and X11 problem

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 18:32:21 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, stan wrote:
> On the FreeBSD machine? I may be confused, but I think that on the FreeBSD
> machine the "client" tassk (eg xclock) is run, and it is pointed to the
> server on the machine that I am connecting _from_. Am I confused?
> 

The task runs on the host machine (using the Xserver) and is forwarded
over SSH to the client machine.  The "client task" you refer to is on
the "host" machine.  

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Glen Barber
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