Great stuff, thanks. What you said made perfect sense and I now have a working system again ! By the way, do you know how to make kppp work with PAP. Every time I try it just sits there doing nothing after connection, until pppd eventually times out. This is not new, I've never been able to work with PAP authentication ! I am still logging on via a script. As I understand it PAP is much faster. kppp takes a very long time logging on ! Thanks again, Owen On Sat, 05 Feb 2000, you wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, OS wrote: > > > As soon as the pppd has established a connection any attempt to start anything > > at all results in : > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > > > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > <snip> > > However root@localhost has now become root@mfs-pci-bqm-vty53 !!! > > It looks to me like ppp is automatically configuring your computer's > hostname to match the dynamic hostname given by your ISP. What happens is > you start X with your usual hostname (localhost), connect, receive a > hostname from your ISP which ppp sets as your new hostname automatically, > and then when you try to start a program in X, it refuses as a security > measure--thinking someone on another machine is trying to run the program. > I don't know if that's technically correct, but that's how I understand > it. > > In kppp the solution is simply not checking the "Auto-configure hostname > from this IP" box. The ifup/ifdown scripts have never changed my > hostname. So, assuming you're not using kppp (you didn't mention it in > the list of programs you're using), I'm not sure how you would change that > setting. > > -Tom
