On 0, John F Davis <johndavi@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to telnet from my debian linux pc to a aix machine and run > xterms from the aix machine on my debian pc. I have done xhost +, > and I still get problems about not being able to connect to the display. > > Other facts: > > I have tried to use XDM to start the xsession instead of startx and it > doesn't help. > > I have examined my DISPLAY setting on my local box (tadpole) and it says > DISPLAY=:0.0. If I change the DISPLAY environment > variable to DISPLAY=tadpole:0.0, I can not invoke an xterm on my local box! > ie. if on tadpole, I do DISPLAY=tadpole:0.0 and then > do xterm it will not work. (I figure if this doesn't work, then the > chances of me getting a remote xterm to work is pretty slim.) If I set > the DISPLAY variable back to DISPLAY=:0.0 and then invoke xterm it works > ok. > > If I do a ssh -X to another debian box, I can invoke xterms back to > tadpole. > > What am I doing wrong? Debian boxes (as of woody, I think) don't listen for X connections on tcp. You need to remove the '-nolisten tcp' from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc whichever you use. The reason it works with ssh is that then the X calls go over an ssh tunnel and the actual connection to the X server is made locally. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide "If your company is not involved in something called "ISO 9000" you probably have no idea what it is. If your company _is_ involved in ISO 9000 then you definitely have no idea what it is." - Scott Adams - The Dilbert principle Get my GPG public key: https://pinky.its.adelaide.edu.au/~tkcook/tom.cook-at-adelaide.edu.au
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