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Re: Exporting x-server apps

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Canary)
Tue Nov 24 03:00:53 1998

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 02:01:30 -0600
From: Robert Canary <rwcanary@ohiocounty.net>
Reply-To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
CC: Kyle Hargraves <kyle@nelson.hedland.edu.au>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

Kyle Hargraves wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Robert Canary wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am still trying to get my linux box to export my x-apps to my x-server
> > here at work.
> >
> > I start a terminal...connect to my linux box....
> > [rwcanary@office rwcanary]$DISPLAY=workIP:0.0
> > [rwcanary@office rwcanary]$export DISPLAY
> > [rwcanary@office rwcanary]$xv
> > [rwcanary@office rwcanary]$ xv
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113
> > xv: Can't open display
> >
> > Does anyone have idea as what to do next?
> >
>         The remote machine is trying to display on the local
>         machine but the local machine is not giving the remote
>         machine permission to display

Yes I think it is a firewall problem. Dun no.

> 
>         On system running RH < 5.0  add the line in .Xclients
> 
> xhost + name_of_remote_machine@domain
> 
>         On RH >=5.0  create a file called .Xclients and add the line
> 
> xhost + name_of_remote_machine@domain
> 

Is this for a Linux to Linux machine?
Is the "name_of_remote_machine" my WindowsNT machine here at work (yes
assume)?

--
robert


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