On 5/20/2014 9:46 AM, Charles Whitby wrote:
> You running doing the xhost + on the Win8 box and the export DISPLAY on the
> Linux side, right?
>
There is no xhost command on the windows side.... I have not done this in two years, but as I remember it, the xhost + was done on the console and the export DISPLAY was done in the user profile. It is the UNIX box exporting the display to allow windows (or another UNIX box) to receive it.
What am I missing.
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> When I put
>> export DISPLAY="IP address:0.0" ip address being my windows8 desktop
>>
>> then
>> xhost +
>>
>> I get
>> xhost: unable to open display "IP:0.0"
>>
>> when I try
>> export DISPLAY=":0.0"
>> I get the same thing.
>>
>> I have centos6.4 running on a late model Dell Blade
>> Windows8 Alienware laptop
>>
>> I checked the xwin firewall setting and it is set to public network
>> access (but strangely private network is grayed out)
>> any ideas
>>
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