Thanks, Alan! That did it. You're becoming a Linux expert faster than you think. Hidong alann wrote: > > Hidong Kim wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm unable to launch X applications in another user's KDE session. For > > example, I log onto the computer as user kim and start KDE. In an > > xterm, I telnet to the same machine and log in as user andre. If user > > andre tries to launch an X application, he gets the error: > > > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > ezppp: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > > > How do I fix this? I'm running Mandrake 6.1 kernel 2.2.13-7mdk, XFree86 > > 3.3.5. Thanks, > > > > Hidong > > Hmm, I'm no linux expert ( yet ) but I got the same "MAGIC COOKIE" thing trying to >run > printtool to set up my new printer. A local linux guru helped me, and I'm not quite >upto > speed > on what this command does, but it has something to do with X.. > Try running in a terminal > > xhost +localhost > > try as user first.. > > Alan > > -- > ====================================== > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS.
