Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
- Subject: Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:47:24 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008, Richard Siek wrote:
>I am a telecommuter and thus the only person on my LAN. So I am not
>particularly concerned about machine to machine security on my LAN.
>Thus, my practice has been to telnet from Mac to my SUN/Solaris box
>and have my .profile automatically set DISPLAY to the IP Address of my
>Mac. I could run GUI apps on Solaris and they would display back to my
>Mac with no problem. That was under Tiger.
Even if internal security isn't a big issue, I find it far easier to use
``ssh -Y ...'' to connect as it handles all the ugly DISPLAY, xhosts, stuff
for me. The fact that it's secure is a bonus.
Bill
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