I tried everyone's suggestions but none of them works. Telnet doesn't work and ssh -X didn't work, either. The error message was: Error: Can't open display:
Here's the output of the xhost command: access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect INET: host2.domain.suffix I thought there was a file somewhere that stored which machines were allowed to access the X server. I am also running KDM if that means anything. On Wednesday 15 January 2003 02:38 pm, Terry Hancock wrote off-list: > On Wednesday 15 January 2003 11:02 am, Matthew W. Sheffield wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to allow my users to run X apps on another > > machine than the one they're using. What's the best way to do this? > > > > I've tried VNC but it's not what I'm looking for. I don't want > > desktop sharing. > > You might be looking for something more than this, but, to open, say, > kmail, from a machine 'alpha' (that I want to run it on), using a 'beta' as > the xterminal, I just do this: > > beta% xhost alpha > beta% telnet alpha > alpha% kmail & > > This doesn't work with ssh because some environment variables don't get set > automatically, but I can fix that: > > beta% xhost alpha > beta% ssh alpha > alpha% setenv DISPLAY beta:0.0 > alpha% kmail & > > This won't set up the whole KDE environment, of course, it will just run > kmail. Basically any X application should run this way, as this is a basic > X windows functionality. > > Cheers, > Terry > > -- > Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) > Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com > > "Some things are too important to be taken seriously"
