Re: xhost: cannot connect to X server

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 23:22:32 +0100, Dieder Vervoort wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I can' t make xhost to work.
> I searched around but couldn' t find a solution.
> Any idea ?

[...]

> dieder@koala:~$ xhost +
> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host

If your goal is to run X applications via ssh, then I would try this:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tune.en.html#s-xssh

IIRC, the X client (the ssh server) needs the xauth package if it does
not have its own X installation.

Another possibility is to use the xrsh package.

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