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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: X questions: how to run x-program on other machine?
- Message-ID: <Aug.15.15.47.40.1992.16458@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 19:47:41 GMT
- References: <zhao.713807106@unixg.ubc.ca> <1992Aug14.232337.7936@colorado.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
-
- >In article <zhao.713807106@unixg.ubc.ca> zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao) writes:
- >>Hi, there,
- >>I have X running, but still have some questions.
- >>know I am running X on a PC under L-I-N-U-X. Is it possible to dial-in and
- >>run x-program from my linux-X machine?
-
- >Not yet. To run the stock X server and clients, you need to have
- >either a unix domain socket (local machine), or a TCP/IP socket
- >connection. This means you need to have IP access to the
- >net on which the host computer runs.
-
- The article goes on to explain what is necessary to set up a SLIP
- connection. It seems to be correct, but the statement that this is
- not yet possible under Linux is wrong. KA9Q supports SLIP.
- ka9qbin.4.tar.Z should from TSX should be sufficient. (Version 6,
- which I have just put up, contains working Ethernet support. It's not
- necessary for SLIP usage.) This version of KA9Q also supports X, by
- the simple expedient of passage bytes back and forth between a local
- Unix-domain connection to the X server and a TCP connection to the
- remote host. The main problem in using SLIP is that your university
- must support SLIP dialups, and that from a practical point of view
- you'll probably need the help of someone in your university's
- networking group to get the configuration right. I've tried to
- explain what's needed in READ.ME, but most users don't know -- and may
- find it hard to find out -- things like whether BOOTP is supported,
- what the name server's address is, etc.
-