Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh

[Cormac McGuinness <cormac@physics.bu.edu>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:24:30AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> hservoma@wis02.ec.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp writes:
> > Mark Santaniello <mas4042@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >Right now, if I ssh to the machine, and attempt to run an X app...say
> > >xterm...it gives this error:
> >
> > >_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 110
> > >xterm Xt error: Can't open display: progression:10.0
> >
> 
> laptop% xclock
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113
> Error: Can't open display: laptop:11.0
> 

Well, it might help if you issue an "xhost +" command on your laptop
so that the xterm is allowed to open the display on your laptop. 
There could of course be other more complicated reasons for this behaviour
however... but I always forget to issue an xhost command myself and I 
always see this.

Cormac
> That's it. From my workstation to other machines things work fine. It
> seems only the Debian box is having problems.
> 
> Gary

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