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Re: XWin -indirect
- From: Alexander Gottwald <Alexander dot Gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 19:26:45 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: XWin -indirect
- References: <4278EDCD.2030309@centercall.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Bill Schaffer wrote:
> The problem:
>
> Well, the user does get the list of systems, however, they can only
> access the system specified as the parameter to the "indirect" option.
> All of the other systems are blocked from accessing the XWin server
> on the user's machine, including the user's own machine. An excerpt
> from kdm log output on one of the Linux systems:
>
> Hung in XOpenDisplay(users_system_addr:0), aborting
> server open failed for users_system_addr:0, giving up
>
> This seems like an access control problem with XWin at the user's
> system. I would like to run "xhost +" but the local system can't
> access XWin either. (Yes, I realize the security implications, but
> want to get it working first) I have tried establishing an
> "/etc/X0.host" file, but XWin seems to disregard it.
XDMCP overrides the xhost access system. More likely a firewall is blocking
access from the system. Are all hosts on the same network?
Running some tracing with tcpdump may help.
bye
ago
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