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Re: Can't run remote X apps



on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:57:19AM -0400, Stan Brown (stanb@awod.com) wrote:
>  I have a debian potato machine, upgraded with teh Progeny stuff, and the
>  2.4.9 kernel. I'm runing XFree86$. During the install a rference came up
>  about editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to allow the X server to listen on a
>  TCP port, so that remote X apps could display on this amchine.
> 
>  I thought I did this corectly, and I have dome xhost +, but I still cannot
>  get remote X apps to display. The error out, saying the can't get  per
>  session information.

1:  see previous comment on SSH.
2:  *DON'T* use xhost.
3:  Modern X implementations don't listen on external TCP/IP interfaces.

Peace.

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