Hi All,
I am trying to get an SGI IRIX machine to remotely display an
application on a Sparc Station 4 runnning RH 6.2.
I can do this with my Intel RH6.0 linux box and the same IRIX box as
follows:
Sitting at the Intel Linux Box
intel$ xhost +mol.uts.edu.au
intel$ telnet mol
login to mol and get the mol prompt, I'm now on the IRIX box
mol$ DISPLAY=mybox.uts.edu.au:0
mol$ export DISPLAY
mol$ nedit &
and Nedit pops up fine.
But sitting at the Sparc box running Linux
sparc$ xhost +mol.uts.edu.au
sparc$ telnet mol
login to mol and get the mol prompt, I'm now on the IRIX box
mol$ DISPLAY=mybox.uts.edu.au:0
mol$ export DISPLAY
mol$ nedit &
After a while I get...
Can't open display: mybox.uts.edu.au:0
Sitting at the IRIX box and getting it to display to the Sparc also does
not work.
The hostname command shows that mybox IS the correct hostname and it is
on X server number 0 (mybox used to hide real name to protect the
innocent).
If on the Sparc I set the DISPLAY to the IRIX box I can get xeyes to
show on the IRIX box so the Linux box can connect to the Xserver on the
IRIX one but not the other way around.
I had a read of the xauth man pages but two things; 1: I don't use xauth
for the Intel box so shouldn't need to use it at all, 2: the man pages
for xauth aren't a tutorial and I don't really follow what the
relationship is between xhost and xauth.
What might be the prob.
Mike
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Michael Lake
University of Technology, Sydney
Ph: 9514 1724 Fx: 9514 1628 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.science.uts.edu.au/~mikel
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