Re: X client problem..

[Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net>]

> System is Kanotix-bug-hunter-07-A (debianunstable based).
>
> Call this box machine A
> I want to run xterm from machine B
>
> Steps tried:
>
> 	on A --> xhost +B
>         loggged into B(via ssh) and --> export DISPLAY=A:0; xterm
>
> results in
> 	... Can't open display "A:0"

Try setting DISPLAY to the IP address of A, with :0 after it of
course.

Maybe host A is having port 6000 blocked so xterm can't contact
A's X server to have it display its stuff.

If that is the case, then let ssh manage the X connection; by using
ssh/slogin's -X option you then *don't* set DISPLAY, because you
would be overwriting the value ssh/sshd have negotiated, which is
a socket or pipe (can't remember which) that redirects X traffic
over the SSH connection. 

So:

	(a) xhost +B
            slogin B
	    export DISPLAY=1.2.3.4:0
	    xterm &

or:

	(b) slogin -X B
            echo $DISPLAY            <--- see! it's already set 
                                          to localhost:something
	    xterm &

Alexis