Re: Unable to use X from remote host...
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
| On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via
| "xhost +" before I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that
| machine's display via DISPLAY variable back to my desktop and try to
| run an X application. But, the remote machines says that it can
| _not_ connect to my desktop's X server.
Why not put sshd (package 'ssh') on the server and use 'ssh -X' on the
client? ssh will then set up the display for you without requiring
xhost. As a side benfit, your password for loggin in will be
encrypted and also all the X data will be tunneled over the encrypted
ssh connection?
| Has something changed in X, or can someone point me to a
| configuration change that will fix this problem?
It hasn't changed recently. The default has been for the X server to
not listen on any TCP ports for quite a while.
HTH,
-D
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