Robert P. J. Day wrote: > just for the entertainment value, i was showing a group of newbie > linux users how easy it was to run a graphical client remotely, so i > did the same thing i've done many times -- had one person run "xhost > +" and someone else set DISPLAY appropriately so run an "xclock" on > their system and have the window itself pop up on the remote system. > > to my surprise, it didn't work even though it seemed like i'd done > the same thing i'd done so many times before. time prevented me from > digging into it further but is there something about FC6 that stops > this from working anymore? > > do you need to do additional work with ssh or xauth or something > these days? thanks. > > rday > Did you check the firewall settings? If I remember correctly, the default settings will block this. I think most people tunnel X connections over SSH now days - both for security and because the compression speeds things up. As a side benefit, if you use "ssh -Y" to make connection to the remote machine, you don't have to play with xhost of DISPLAY - ssh takes care of this for you. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
