On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Jerome Auza wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using redhat linux 7.3 with the X software that > came with the CD. I installed Linux with medium > firewall security, it uses DHCP for its IP address. > I'm using the machine together with Sun Ultra > workstations on Solaris 2.7 and up. > > I wanted to display applications from the Solaris > machines on my Linux computer but I always get 'Cannot > open display myip:0.0'. No other message is > displayed. I have tried setting up xauth and have > made sure I have xhost + and have done setenv DISPLAY > myip:0.0. If I type xhost - on the linux machine and > try running the solarix x app, I still get the same > error. I was expecting "Refused by server" here.
I think that "medium firewall security" blocks X traffic in that direction. If you want "medium security" you should not use xhost. Consider xauth instead. I find that ssh makes the xauth cookie management transparent and use it all the time instead of telnet. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
