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
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