Re: Remote X-term

[Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz>]

lee.bradshaw@mindspring.com (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 port 6000 on
the second X server and set DISPLAY to "firewall:1"...

> With ssh, ssh
> initiates the encrypted connection and all responses come back over this
> connection. ssh pulls out the X info and displays it locally.

... but ssh makes it very easy and secure, and is probably better in
most cases.

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