thanks jon,
yes, i would have thought that ssh would take care of this,
but it isn't.
i tried both of your suggestions, and still get:
Xt error: Can't open display.
i would have thought that ssh would change $DISPLAY, but
i need to do this manually.
i have noticed that my local .Xauthority file
still reads:
localhost.localdomain0MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1<some junk>
i would have thought that ssh would do something to this file,
and perhaps this is the problem.
jonathan
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jon wrote:
Sounds like you need to use "xhost" to allow the remote machine to access
your X display. When you ssh in, X11 forwarding is normally setup through
ssh itself.
Try doing "xhost +remote.machine.com" on the machine you want to allow
connections to, then opening up the X app.
Of course, why not just use ssh, like:
ssh -f whatever.phys.ualberta.ca xmaple
This will work well, and is more secure...
Anwyays. Hope this helps and I'm not missing what you need entirely :)
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 01:45:37PM -0600, Jonathan Oppenheim wrote:
> I am able to get ppp running, and i am assigned a local IP address
> dynamically.
> I can run netscape locally and things like that, but can't get a
> remote server to open up an x window on my local machine.
>
> (I get the "can't open display" message")
>
> i ssh over to a remote server.
> i can, if need be set the display (i use bash) to the local
> IP address I've been assigned by typing DISPALY=xxx.yyy.zzz.ww:0.0
>
> before I ppp, I type (on my local machine) "hostname <some word>"
>
> and i have the line "ALL: .phys.ualberta.ca" in my hosts.allow file
> (where .phys.ualberta.ca is the domain name for the remote server)
>
> but when i type "xmaple" for example (after establishing an ssh
> connection) i get "can't open display"
>
> is there something else i need to do to tell the remote machine how to
> open my display?
>
> thanks!
> jonathan
>
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