Fedora will not display remote X

Gary P Carr gcarr at lanl.gov
Wed Feb 16 22:44:15 UTC 2005


Sorry, I did not make my question clear. X11 through ssh tunnel works fine, 
no problems. The problem is connecting to fedora X-server from remote host 
without an ssh X tunnel, even though have run "xhost +" command on fedora, 
which should open up X-server to all connections as I understand it.

At 03:02 PM 2/16/2005, you wrote:
>At least for fc > 3 as client OS (i.e where the X-server resides. the
>box with you and the keyboard ;) ), if you want to forward X11 over ssh,
>you'l need the -X (and possibly -Y for "full access") flags on the ssh
>comand-line, in order to forward X11 over ssh. RTFM...
>
>ons, 16.02.2005 kl. 22.37 skrev Gary P Carr:
> > I have a Fedora 1 system I've just set up.
> >
> > I cannot seem to get the system to allow display of remote X apps on 
> Fedora
> > host.
> >
> > I have firewall turned off, try setting "xhost +" to allow all 
> connections,
> > but any attempt to run remote application is denied. I can ping fedora
> > host, or ssh into it from remote.
> >
> > If I ssh to the remote host, then applications run fine through the ssh 
> tunnel.
> >
> > I am new to Linux administration, am I missing something simple here?
> >
>
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