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Re: X -broadcast ???!!!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Hogan)
Sun Nov 8 12:34:58 1998

Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 10:11:08 -0700
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From: Tim Hogan <thogan@alt.net>
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I ran into this problem as well.  It turned out that I had to have the IP
address of the host in the host table on the server.  Try adding your IP
address to /etc/hosts and see if that helps...

Tim



At 02:02 AM 11/8/98, you wrote:
: Hi there,
: I have two machine running RH5.1. One of'em is a PII400+lots of RAM+lots
: of programs. The other one is a P75+reasonable RAM+bare Linux+X.
: 
: I'd like to run X on P75 and have it managed by the PII. I have tried
: "X -query PII.IP", and "X -broadcaast". Using either of them X starts, I
: get the `salt&pepper' background and nothing else. Looks to me that the
: PII does not answer any of the calls (although there is nothing in
: /var/log/messages nor in /var/log/secure). BTW, I can run startx locally
: on the P75, change xhost, telnet to the PII, and run any X program; but
: that's *not* what I want :-(
: 
: I guess it's only a matter of changing a configureation file on the PII to
: honour remote X-management request. An ideas??!!
: 
: cheers,
: Hossein S. Zadeh
: 
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