On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:08, Craig White wrote: >On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 23:02 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Tonight I thought I'd play with emc2 a bit, but since updateing this >> machine to FC6, somethings gone fubar in the X11 forwarding. Here is >> whats been executed to get to the failure: >> >> --------- >> [root@coyote amanda]# xhost +192.168.71.4 >> 192.168.71.4 being added to access control list >> [root@coyote amanda]# su gene >> [gene@coyote amanda]$ ssh -X shop >> gene@shop's password: >> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 >> forwarding. Linux shop 2.6.15-magma #1 Fri Jun 9 20:51:19 EEST 2006 >> i686 GNU/Linux Welcome to the Shop @ the Coyote's Den >> >> Last login: Sun Nov 26 22:52:45 2006 from coyote.coyote.den >> gene@shop:~$ cd emc2.head/ >> gene@shop:~/emc2.head$ scripts/emc >> EMC2 - pre-2.1 CVS HEAD >> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server >> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key >> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to >> display "localhost:10.0" >> ------------ >> >> Obviously I can't do this xhost thingy as a common user: >> ---------- >> [gene@coyote amanda]$ xhost +192.168.71.4 >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server >> Xlib: No protocol specified >> >> xhost: unable to open display ":0" >> ----------- >> X was started by root, as usual. >> >> Where did I mess up? Where is this access control list being >> maintained and is it editable by mortals? Or where is this magic >> cookie key?, and how do I refresh it to valid status? >> >> This exact procedure worked just fine when I was running FC2 (with >> xorg-6.8.1-901 hand built on this box.) > >---- >remote X-windows doesn't work when you do an 'su' unless before you do >that, you have to authorize the local user to use x which just >complicates things. But the application isn't built nor intended to be run as root. >don't do an su and you'll be able to use remote x-windows > >better yet...freenx rocks Do I need it installed on both machines? >Craig -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
