problems with running remote X programs

[Matthew Yee-King <yeeking@no-future.com>]

Hello

I'm running gdm, windowmaker, woody and xfree 4.2. i need to run software on a remote mahcine that outputs to my local X server. On the remote machine, i export DISPLAY="mylocalIP:0" then on my local machine, i xhost <memote machineIP> . but it doesn't work - on the remote machine i get the error  

Error: Can't open display: <mylocalIP>:0

is the xserver really locked down by default on debian or something?

if i have a root terminal in an xsession started by a normal user, i can't use x programs either...

any ideas?

matthew


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