any way to connect my Freebsd box and my linux laptop

user1442 · 11-07-2005, 03:48 PM

right now when i want to fool around with bsd, i ssh into my my bsd machine. is there any other way to connect the two?

username17 · 11-07-2005, 03:50 PM

I don't understand what you mean. Is there something wrong with using SSH? If they're on the same network, essentially they're connected.

You could use your lappy as a console of sorts and connect to the BSD machine, but no point if you have SSH.

What kind of access are you trying to get?

user1442 · 11-07-2005, 04:32 PM

username. i am not sure what kind of access i am trying to get. I just want to learn what options are available to connect the two.

phil.d.g · 11-07-2005, 05:04 PM

Well if you have ssh and are looking for further things to try you could play around with VNC or X forwarding for running gui programs on the BSD machine from your laptop

Back_to_Linux · 11-07-2005, 05:15 PM

are you sure of your network ?
Can you ping each other ?
Have you SSh installed, and if yes the tow versions are identicals?
What type of acces you need ? managing the box ? file transfert ? control it ? share resources ? Authentification ?
many usages, many kinds of connect !

user1442 · 11-07-2005, 05:34 PM

"Well if you have ssh and are looking for further things to try you could play around with VNC or X forwarding for running gui programs on the BSD machine from your laptop"

Yes! Phil. That would be fun. I vaguely had that in mind, but I didn't know it was possible. Like I said, I have ssh working. Where do I need to look to learn how to do VNC and /or xforwarding?

jmr71769 · 11-07-2005, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by user1442
"Well if you have ssh and are looking for further things to try you could play around with VNC or X forwarding for running gui programs on the BSD machine from your laptop"

Yes! Phil. That would be fun. I vaguely had that in mind, but I didn't know it was possible. Like I said, I have ssh working. Where do I need to look to learn how to do VNC and /or xforwarding?

Check it out:

http://www.tightvnc.com/

http://www.usenix.org/publications/l...tml/index.html

Good luck.

:-)

user1442 · 11-07-2005, 10:07 PM

excellent!