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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
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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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