Re: X server via network.
On 9 Jun 1997, Chris Brown wrote:
>
> The other day I set up a couple of new machines and decided to
> monitor then from home. One thng that I thought would be nice was to
> run the procmeter on the remote machine. I'v never run any
> applications on X via a network connection befor so I thought this
> would be interesting. After doing an rlogin and setting the DISPLAY
> environvent variable like so: "foo.bar.com:0.0". I ran the procmeter
> and it said that it didn't have permission to connect to the X
> server. Somewhere there must be a file that I need to grant this
> permission in but I am not familiar enough with X to know about
> this one and I'm not even sure where to look. Can someone point me
> in the right direction.
>
You need to tell your local machine that X connections from your remote
ones are allowed. This is done using "xhost".
Here's an example:
Your remote machine is remote.foobar.com, your local one local.foobar.com;
On your local machine, type "xhost + remote.foobar.com", on the remote
one, type "setenv DISPLAY local.foobar.com:0.0" (C Shell) or "export
DISPLAY=local.foobar.com:0.0" (Bourne Shell).
You should now be able to get what you wanted.
Warning: anybody can display a program on your own Display once you've
granted permissions with xhost.
[META ON]
Curiously, SUN workstations seem to refuse granting remote Linux
workstations such rights...
Apparently, the two machine's domains must be the same.
[META OFF]
Hope it helps,
Seb.
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