On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:44:17AM +0100, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > How to make X listen on the network depends on how you start the X
> > server. If you use startx(1), then you just need to invoke it as:
> >
> > startx -listen_tcp
>
> Hmm, well, this definately does not work for me ;-/
So, what happens if you try and start X listening on the network?
What version of XFree86 do you have installed? You need at least
XFree86-clients-4.2.0_1 according to my reading of the CVS logs:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11/XFree86-4-clients/Makefile?rev=1.96&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
It should be pretty obvious if your startx(1) understands the
-listen_tcp flag just by reading the script. Of course, if it doesn't
understand the -listen_tcp flag then it probably defaults to listening
on the network anyhow.
What does:
netstat -an | grep '\.60[0-9][0-9]'
or
sockstat | grep ':60[0-9][0-9]'
return? How about:
ps -axwww | grep /usr/X11R6/bin/X
You need for something to be listening at about port 6000+n
(where n is zero or more, but usually less than 20) in order to have
any hope of running X over the network.
If X *is* listening for network connections, then I'd start looking at
firewall rulesets or the like to discover what's blocking the traffic.
Cheers,
Matthew
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