Re: AW: X won't allow display export...
> * start xterm (or any X-shell) on the client box
> * xhost +
^^^ this is overkill if you're going to use ssh;
> * ssh -X -l user server_name
the -X forwards X packets so there's no need to turn off X security with
xhost.
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin@unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Schoppitsch Dieter wrote:
> I do it this way:
> * start xterm (or any X-shell) on the client box
> * xhost +
> * ssh -X -l user server_name
> * type xterm
> and you are in your server.
>
> Dieter
>
>
>
> > I am unable to successfully export the display from one of my Debian
> > boxen to another. I tried the following on the box I was using X on:
> >
> > xhost +
> >
> > and the following on the box I was trying to export the display from:
> >
> > export DISPLAY=10.1.1.33:0.0
> >
> > Normally, this has worked under other distros and Unices (I have a
> > Mandrake box and two SPARC's running Solaris 8 here), but I can't get it
> > to work under Debian. Is there some package I've forgotten to install??
> >
> > --Aaron Traas
> >
> >
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