Hidong Kim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an IBM Thinkpad running Red Hat 7.2.  Its networking protocol is
> DHCP.  I can't run a remote X session on this machine.  For example, I
> put it on our network, and do 'xhost +192.168.230.201', which is a
> machine on our Linux NIS network.  Then when I log in to 192.168.230.201
> from the Thinkpad, and try to run an X app, like Netscape, I get a
> message like "cannot connect to newt.emeraldbiostructures.com:0.0 [the
> Thinkpad]".  Is there something in addition to 'xhost' that needs to be
> done to run a remote X session on a DHCP machine?

The DHCP bit shouldn't have anything to do with it.  I suspect that you have
firewall rules blocking access to port 6000 ( :0.0 => 6000) from other
clients.  Try "man iptables"

Alan






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