On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:04, Bevan C. Bennett wrote: > Keven Ring wrote: > > Edward Croft wrote: > > > >> One of my coworkers is trying to export his Xwindows desktop to another > >> machine and is having no luck. The error he gets is similar to the one > >> below. > >> > >> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0 > >> > >> We tried something different and this is the response. > >> > >> 201]==> setenv DISPLAY ecroft:0 > >> [202]==> xterm > >> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > >> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 > >> > >> > >> > >> > > How about an xhost +<machine name> on ecroft, where <machine name> is > > the machine that you are running the xterm on? > > How about just using ssh's built-in X-forwarding? > It's really one of the best features of ssh, as it can pretty well do > away with all that horrible DISPLAY fiddling and xhost munging. > > [bevan@saladin ~]> ssh odin > [bevan@odin ~]> printenv DISPLAY > localhost:18.0 > [bevan@odin ~]> xterm & > [1] 4491 > <xterm appears> Trust me, I do, but this coworker refuses to use ssh. He wants rlogin. He still is using 6.2. It has taken a lot of pushing just to get him to use Fedora. -- Edward M. Croft Sr. Systems Engineer Open Ratings, Inc. 200 West Street Waltham, MA 02451-1121
