Thanks for the full explanation.
Sounds like it might be a nice thing in general to run the X server -- I
suspect other linux apps would do well to run that way.
I'm on the same lan, so I don't believe there'll be a firewall problem.
When I'm off-premises, there very well might be.
I'm off to discover X servers for Windows 2000.
Thanks!
Joseph R. Skoler
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 6:30 AM
> To: Joseph R. Skoler
> Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Brand new
>
>
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:48:59AM -0400, Joseph R. Skoler wrote:
> > I'm a novice at this, so I probably don't follow entirely.
> >
> > Here's the situation:
> >
> > I've got RedHat 7.2 on a box and I'm ssh'd into that box
> using SecureCRT.
> >
> > So, should I run xhost during these sessions?
>
> Given that SecureCRT is a Windows application, the machine in front of
> which you're sitting, and to which your keyboard, mouse, and
> monitor are
> connected, is presumably running some version of Windows.
>
> If you want to run, on another machine, applications such as Ethereal
> that use X11 for GUI display, and have them pop up windows on your
> Windows machine and get input from the keyboard and mouse on your
> Windows machine, you will need to be running an X server on
> your Windows
> machine.
>
> If you are running an X server, you will need to configure it to allow
> the Red Hat box to connect to that server. I cannot help you
> there; you
> will have to read the documentation for your X server and see how to
> configure it to allow particular machines to connect to the X server.
>
> You will also have to arrange that there is no firewall between your
> Windows machine and the Red Hat machine that would prevent the Red Hat
> machine from connecting to an X server on your Windows machine. I
> cannot help you there; I don't know what your network configuration is
> like, nor, if I did, could I help you configure firewalls.
>
> If you do not have an X server application running on your Windows
> machine, you will have to get one. I don't know all of the X servers
> available for Windows; vendors such as Hummingbird:
>
> http://www.hcl.com/
>
> sell them.
>
