On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:06:16PM -0400, Jim Rich wrote: > I installed SuSE SLES8 2 weeks ago on our FLEX-ES system, > using SAMBA running on the Red Hat base OS, which mostly > serves up our IBM manuals. I used the X install method, after > first issuing the following command on my SuSE 8.2 workstation: > > xhost ip.of.the.new.SLES8 >
xhost-based authorization is generally not a good idea. > > After it is installed, and you want to run yast2 or other > X applications you need to issue: > > export DISPLAY=ip.of.your.workstation:0.0 Alternatively, you could have connected to it with: ssh -X ip.of.your.workstation And enjoy the X forwarding. No xhost settings required. (The rogram xauth needs to be installed on the target machine) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
