On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Neil Marjoram wrote: > > No sorry I meant by exporting the DISPLAY on the remote host and using xhost > on the local host. In some release in the past a bit extra security was > configured which stopped this by default, nd now I can't remember what it is. Why not use ssh X forwarding? Its a bit more safer.. To do it the old way - you have to do the following: 1. edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf - and uncomment the option 'DisallowTCP=true' - and restart gdm 2. Make sure your firewall doesn't block port '6000' (perhaps this can be done with system-config-security-level) Satish
