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Re: cannot set DISPLAY from remote machine



On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 09:31:00AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote:
| Recently I installed woody on three machines and I am having the same
| problem on all of them: 
| 
| When I try to export DISPLAY from a remote machine to any of the 
| three woody machines I get the error:
| 
| _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
| 
| (I did not forget to do the xhost + to allow access).
| 
| What is the problem here? -I didn't have this problem with potato. Did I
| overlook something in the installation of XFree 4 ?

Yeah, tcp listening is disabled by default.  Instead try (on the
debian box) :

    ssh -X -l <remote_user_name> <remote_host>

and run an X app (but don't set DISPLAY!).

-D



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