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Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine



/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, find the line that says

:0 blah blah

and take off the -nolisten tcp option from that line, then restart XDM.
next time you logon, you will be able to connect to your machine remotely
with X.


On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Steffen Evers wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same
> > problem on all of them: 
> > 
> > When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the 
> > three woody machines I get the error:
> > 
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > 
> > (I did not forget to do the xhost + to allow access).
> > 
> > What is the problem here? -I didn't have this problem with potato. Did I
> > overlook something in the installation of XFree 4 ?
> As fare as I can remember XF 4 has tcp/ip listing off by default. I
> guess you have set this during the configuration. You have to turn this
> on again, otherwise it does not work.
> 
> I cannot remember which package it was that you have to dpkg-reconfigure
> ...
> 
> Someone else?
> 
> Bye, Steffen
> 
> 
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