Thanks As a matter of fact I did try ssh as you recommend, and got the same result: still no-go. I did also use the security applet to open port 22 but for some reason when I save & re-open the applet, port 22 is gone from the list... which is why I've got the firewall disabled for the time being. On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:59 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > If, instead of "rlogin remotehost" you had used "ssh -X remotehost", you > could probably just have run "oclock" without fiddling with > display/xhost/xauth etc. and what's more it would have been more secure > too. This would work with the firewall enabled too, as long as there was > hole poked through it for sshd (just the one port). -- Douglas Frank HP Co. ZKO 110 Spit Brook Rd. The older I get, 603-884-0501 Nashua, NH USA 03062 the better I was.