On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:10:23PM +0100, Andrew Lindley wrote: > I have 2 machines running Woody and not enough desk space for both > screens and keyboards. I'd like to be able to run X sessions on both > machines from only one of the machines. When I ran SuSE I could use > xhost +<host ip> to allow remote (or even other local users) access to > the display. This doesn't work on Debian. The debian default config is for the X server *not* to listen on any network ports (secure-by-default and all that). Hence, the X server will not be be directly available from other machines. > Could someone tell me what the correct incantation is? There's two ways that I know of: - If you are on a LAN that you trust (=nobody will be sniffing the traffic), you could consider letting the X server listen on TCP/IP. Bring up the GDM configurator - there should be a an option for that at the login window - or if you're logged in already (I know: you are reading mail, so you must be. I can tell...) go Desktop->Administration->Login Window and check out the Security tab - Use SSH X forwarding Disclaimer: I'm running etch. I can barely remember woody - GDM is probably different in woody... -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.
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