On Sunday 17 August 2003 18:31, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem: I cannot display windows from a remote machine. > when I log in to another machine and want to see the window displayed on my > machine I set up the DISPLAY variable on that machine and on my machine I > use xhost to grant the other machine access. But I get an error that it > can't open the display... > > my setup: > > client (legolas): > DISPLAY=gandalf:0.0 > > server (gandalf): > xhost legolas > > legolas:~ > xmessage test > Error: Can't open display: gandalf:0.0 > > also when I use `xhost +` I still cannot connect... > so what did I miss? >
if you have this in ps aux: root 1414 0.8 4.3 288108 22216 ? SL 19:53 1:35 /etc/X11/X -nolisten tcp comment this line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp BUT that is huge possible security leak! Be carefull with your passwords. Gl�ck Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
