export/setenv

[Sean]

The _easiest way to do it, is to run it over ssh (you need ssh installed
on both boxes). You just have to launch your programs/terminals or
whatever from the open term ssh takes care of the environmental variables
and stuff.


On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, root wrote:

> I am currently running 2 linux boxes now, one as a router/server, and
> one as an actual user machine. I'd like to be able to export the display
> from my server to my current machine because I have no monitor or
> keyboard hooked into the server. I thought i knew how to do it, but
> I have never done it between 2 linux/*nix machines before, I have always
> used my Mac. So I'd do something like this
> 
> telnet 192.168.3.169
> 
> /bin/tcsh
> #setenv DISPLAY 192.168.3.169:x
> #xterm &
> 
> where x is the display number on the user machine I want to export my
> video to. How do I know what number to put there, and how do I let the
> user machine allow this connection from an outside machine. I think I
> may have hit it before but it gave me a permissions error.
> 
> Also, this is my first e-mail from Linux, so if formatting is messed or
> something, lemme know.
> 
> -Mike
> 
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