On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just for the entertainment value, i was showing a group of newbie > > linux users how easy it was to run a graphical client remotely, so i > > did the same thing i've done many times -- had one person run "xhost > > +" and someone else set DISPLAY appropriately so run an "xclock" on > > their system and have the window itself pop up on the remote system. > > > > to my surprise, it didn't work even though it seemed like i'd done > > the same thing i'd done so many times before. time prevented me from > > digging into it further but is there something about FC6 that stops > > this from working anymore? > > > > do you need to do additional work with ssh or xauth or something > > these days? thanks. > > > > rday > > > Did you check the firewall settings? If I remember correctly, the > default settings will block this. i made sure both systems had their firewalling de-activated. (yes, i know that's hysterically unsafe, but i was just trying to isolate the problem.) > I think most people tunnel X connections over SSH now days - both > for security and because the compression speeds things up. > > As a side benefit, if you use "ssh -Y" to make connection to the > remote machine, you don't have to play with xhost of DISPLAY - ssh > takes care of this for you. i'll give that a shot next time, but i'm still curious as to why this didn't work in the first place. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
