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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:

> Let's say you're behind a firewall and have a NAT address.
> Is there any way to telnet to a linux box out there in the world
> and set your DISPLAY in some way that you can create
> xterms on your own screen?

As other people suggested: SSH. PuTTY 

	http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

can do it. Can run, say xclock (I'm running an X server under W32 at work,
tunneling through a NAT box), but from Linux, not from Solaris.  Probably
OpenSSH misconfigurat5ion.