xhost problem

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:50:01AM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> I can't get an xterm from another machine to display on my 5.3 system.
> I've tried xhost with the ip of the machine I want to allow in,
> and finally tried xhost + to allow any machine in,
> but attempts to display still fail with "Can't open display w.x.y.z:0.0"
> 
> firewall_enable and ipfilter_enable are NO at the moment,
> and the source (xterm) system is open on the internal network.
> 
> What am I missing?

Xservers don't listen on the network by default nowadays, because
running X across the network in plain is about as bad as using rsh(1),
or unencrypted telnet(1).  Ideally you should be tunnelling the X
session through ssh(1) -- look for the description of the '-X' and
'-Y' flags to ssh ('-Y' is only available with more recent versions of
ssh(1)), and the 'ForwardX11' command you can use in
/etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config.

If you're tunnelling through ssh(1), everything should be setup
automatically for you: your $DISPLAY on the remote machine will look
like 'localhost:10.0' or 'remote.host.name:10.0' -- don't fiddle with
the $DISPLAY setting, or you'll never get the forwarding to work.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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