RE: problems forwarding X over SSH...
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
You could do it a little kludge-ily by adding the laptop's IP or actual
hostname in /etc/X0.hosts (you might possibly even be able to add
<laptophostname>.*
If you have to add it each time, you'll have to, obviously, restart xdm.
But it's certainly doable. Hope it helps?
Regards,
Glen
> Subject: Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:17:58 -0400
> From: William Burrow <aa126@fan.nb.ca>
> To: Gary Hennigan <glhenni@sandia.gov>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> > what network it was attached to. This local name doesn't necessarily
> > correspond to its real name on the network and thus ssh was setting
> > the display to this local name instead of the laptops real network
> > name. Obviously this disallows a functional forward of X11.
> >
> > In my case I need to figure out how to set the host name to the "real"
> > name of the laptop depending on what network it resides (maybe PCMCIA
> > has some provision for this?). For now I can set it's host name
> > manually via the "hostname" command to it's real network name and that
> > fixes the problem.
>
> You might be able to get around it by generating a cookie for the host name
> as it is seen from the network:
>
> xauth generate outside.name:0 .
>
> Dunno if that will work or not.
>
> --
> William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada
> A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
> out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended.
> -- brian moore
>
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