on Sun, Apr 07, 2002, Ralf Doppelstein (Ralf.Doppelstein@epost.de) wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I have 2 woody based hosts with gnome/gdm, last update at last night.
> I try to open i.e. xclock on the remote host and show on the local
> host.
X disables remote tcp connections by default in Debian. You can't do
that, and you don't want to.
> I always get the message
> Can't open display: <local-host>:0.
This is a feature.
> I do the following steps:
> A)
> localhost: xhost +
*Don't* do that.
> ssh remotehost
The command you meant to use was:
$ ssh -X remotehost
...make sure your ssh config allows X11 forwarding (this is also
disabled by default).
Peace.
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