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Re: Question about remote X authorizations
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:57:47 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: Question about remote X authorizations
- References: <1111659397.42429385a5aba@mail.s44.at>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Marcus Frischherz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a question/problem:
>
> I use cygwin to connect to a Solaris nachine (serverA), and log on using CDE.
> Everything fine so far, the DISPLAY variable is client:0.0. From serverA I do a
> rlogin to serverB (there is no ssh available on either serverA or serverB).
> There I export DISPLAY=client0.0. Now, I would like to start for example an
> x-term (running on serverB), and see the x-term via my x-session on serverA.
> However, this fails with a "Error: Can't open display: client:0.0".
>
> Now, I was under the assumption that putting serverB into the file /etc/X0.hosts
> should do the job, but it didn't.
Actually it should. Maybe there is still a problem with DNS. Check /tmp/XWin.log for
AUDIT messages. Does the IP address there match the ip address of serverB?
running "xhost serverB" is nearly equivalent of putting it in /etc/X0.hosts. Does this
fix the problem?
BTW: Because of low network security of X11 I strongly advise using ssh with X11Forwarding
for all remote xprograms.
bye
ago
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