Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Now I haven't tried it, but I'm told is approximately /impossible/ to 
> actually configure X so that you can access it remotely. Even though 
> that's its entire design goal.

  I don't know what you mean.

  For the sake of it, I just now tried to do a "ssh -X" to a friend's computer
(who is also running linux) and ran xclock. It opened nicely on my screen,
even though the program itself is running on my friend's computer (which is
physically located something like 200 km from here).

  (For some reason xclock is the de-facto "standard" X program to test
running X apps remotely. Probably because it's very light and ubiquitous
in all X installations.)

  Yes, you have to specify a special parameter to ssh in order to enable
X forwarding, but that's for safety reasons rather than anything else.

> >    It's Windows that was designed to be a purely local system, and to which
> > remote running was patched in later.

> And yet, Windows is the one where I run a command, type in the name of 
> any networked PC, and I have remote access. By default. No special 
> configuration required.

  What kind of configuration did I do to be able to log in into my friend's
computer and run an app remotely? Or to transfer files for that matter (which
was the original point)?

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                                                          - Warp

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