On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:58:01AM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Joachim Backes wrote: > >Im ugraded from FC3 to FC4. > > > >In FC3, it was possible, after making "xhost +somehost", to use X11 > >applications on <somehost> with display to localhost:0. But in FC4, > >the X11 application on <somehost> to localhost:0 fails with timeout. > > > >I found no reason for this behaviour, which only happens on localhost, > >but not on other fc4 machines. > > > >Some comments? > > I would dispense with xhost and manual setting of the DISPLAY, and > simply use "ssh -Y somehost" from localhost and then just run the > application from the ssh session. Simpler and more secure. > > Paul. That is certainly one solution. Another is to allow X11 forwarding in the sshd.conf and ssh.conf file on both machines.
