On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:07:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is likely an X Authentication problem. > > The X server is running on the thin client, but processes that run on > > the thin client are not authorized to access the display. It is because > > the X session has been authenticated via the display manager running > > back on the ltsp server. > > The quick and dirty way to get around this is to set: > > DISABLE_ACCESS_CONTROL = Y > > in the lts.conf file. > > I'm looking for a better way to resolve this problem that doesn't open > > up the workstation display to the world. > > It's one of those things that will probably only take an hour or so to > > figure out. The big problem is finding that hour. > > I should think something like this should do it: > > The users logs in via his thinclient to his LTSP server. This then needs > to be run: > > xauth extract - $DISPLAY | ssh thinclient xauth merge - > > After that starting localapps should in theory work, but I have no way > of verifying if this works.
I think you are pretty close. I've done stuff like that before. It just takes a little time to sit down and work through it, to make sure it works. Jim. > > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
