on Fri, Jun 14, 2002, Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 01:21:59PM +0100, Matthew Yee-King wrote: > > I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run > > software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the > > remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local > > machine, i xhost <memote machineIP> . but it doesn't work - on the > > remote machine i get the error > > > > Error: Can't open display: <mylocalIP>:0 > > > > is the xserver really locked down by default on debian or something? > > Yes. Remove '-nolisten tcp' from whatever starts your X server if you Don't do that. It's there for a reason. X11 is an insecure, unauthenticated, protocol. Use other means (ssh with X11 forwarding) to tunnel it remotely if necessary. If you're gaming, run the game on your local box. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/
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