Re: Can't remote X
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Cesare Tagliaferri wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's ISP service, or what? Any clues as to how I can connect? You have to do, on the machine running the server: xhost client ip this will authorize the client. I tried this earlier today and it didn't work, but I tried it again just now and it worked. I guess I just wasn't holding my mouth right* when I tried earlier. *For those from other cultures, this means I don't have an explanation for the phenomenon so it must be attributable to the nuances of facial inflexion. -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
Can't remote X
Hi All! I'm a newbie, and have just discovered running X apps on a remote machine on a local X server. Weigh kule! On my campus, I can run an X server (XMix I believe) on a Win95/NT box and then telnet to a linux box and set my DISPLAY variable to the Win95 IP address and then run apps on that linux box and they show up on the 95 box. This is cool. Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's ISP service, or what? Any clues as to how I can connect? PS. I've heard people refer to rlogin and ssh and have kindda gotten the impression that these are alternative means of telnetting in; maybe this relates to my problem? Thanks! -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
Re: Can't remote X
On Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 06:52:11PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's ISP service, or what? Any clues as to how I can connect? PS. I've heard people refer to rlogin and ssh and have kindda gotten the impression that these are alternative means of telnetting in; maybe this relates to my problem? You need to tell your local X server that the remote X client is authorised to connect. The simplest way is xhost +servername, but that's pretty insecure. The better way is to use xauth to export your X magic cookie to a file, and then import it on to the host at the other end. ssh can do some trickery and make your X connection go through the secure connection. This means (a) your session is encrypted, and (b) no mucking around with xauth because it does it for you. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: Can't remote X
On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's ISP service, or what? Any clues as to how I can connect? You have to do, on the machine running the server: xhost client ip this will authorize the client. PS. I've heard people refer to rlogin and ssh and have kindda gotten the impression that these are alternative means of telnetting in; maybe this relates to my problem? If you use ssh the X connection doesn't go directly to your Xserver, but it passes through a virtual proxy on the client side (so it can be crypted); the ssh protocol manages all that. Hope this helps Cesare Tagliaferri
Re: Can't remote X
Hi! Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's ISP service, or what? either do an ssh to your box at home - it will set up everything correctly (and encrypted!!) or do something like rsh box.at.homexauth add `xauth list $DISPLAY` . Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB pgpHkx687SVH2.pgp Description: PGP signature
