On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:58:03PM -0500, Darryl L. Pierce wrote: | On my desktop machine (running woody) I enable X server access via | "xhost +" before I telnet into another machine. I then redirect that | machine's display via DISPLAY variable back to my desktop and try to | run an X application. But, the remote machines says that it can | _not_ connect to my desktop's X server.
Why not put sshd (package 'ssh') on the server and use 'ssh -X' on the client? ssh will then set up the display for you without requiring xhost. As a side benfit, your password for loggin in will be encrypted and also all the X data will be tunneled over the encrypted ssh connection? | Has something changed in X, or can someone point me to a | configuration change that will fix this problem? It hasn't changed recently. The default has been for the X server to not listen on any TCP ports for quite a while. HTH, -D
