Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Joost Kooij did write: The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections at all by default. Check out the -nolisten option in your xserver manual page. I don't think this holds for potato. I'm pretty certain I never explicity re-enabled it on

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:04:09PM -0400, Mike wrote: [snip] | This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the | remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it | hasn't seemed to make a difference. X must be running on the local side,

Re: embarrassing X question (PARTIAL FIX)

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Black
Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: > For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and > display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, > possibly, the changes to gdm...) > > I have tried many different things.

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Thursday, July 19, Richard Black did write: Joost Kooij wrote: Generally, don't use xhost, it is not safe. Instead use xauth. But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man page ie variants of xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-20 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: The xfree86 packages have been changed to not accept tcp connections at all by default. Check out the -nolisten option in your xserver manual page. Okay thanks! But...how do I use xauth? I have tried doing what what suggested in the man

embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Black
For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have tried many different things. Typical is something like: [local machine] xhost + rlogin remote [remote machine] export

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread dude
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Richard Black wrote: For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have tried many different things. Typical is something like: [local

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have tried many different things. Typical is something

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: | For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and | display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, | possibly, the changes to gdm...) | | I have tried many different things. Typical is something

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Black
Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have tried many different things.

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike
D-Man wrote: I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the easiest (only?) way to display stuff back on a masq'd box. How do you do this?

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Richard Black
Richard Black wrote: Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:27:49AM -0400, Richard Black wrote: For some reason, I can no longer remote login to another terminal and display stuff on mine! This started happening last week (with, possibly, the changes to gdm...) I have

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread D-Man
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: | D-Man wrote: | | I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the | ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be | setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the | easiest (only?)

Re: embarrassing X question

2001-07-19 Thread Mike
D-Man wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: | D-Man wrote: | | I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the | ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be | setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the