How do you export an x-session in Fedora

[Edward Croft]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:04, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Keven Ring wrote:
> > Edward Croft wrote:
> > 
> >> One of my coworkers is trying to export his Xwindows desktop to another
> >> machine and is having no luck. The error he gets is similar to the one
> >> below.
> >>
> >> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0
> >>
> >> We tried something different and this is the response.
> >>
> >> 201]==> setenv DISPLAY ecroft:0
> >> [202]==> xterm
> >> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> >> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> > How about an xhost +<machine name> on ecroft, where <machine name> is 
> > the machine that you are running the xterm on?
> 
> How about just using ssh's built-in X-forwarding?
> It's really one of the best features of ssh, as it can pretty well do 
> away with all that horrible DISPLAY fiddling and xhost munging.
> 
> [bevan at saladin ~]> ssh odin
> [bevan at odin ~]> printenv DISPLAY
> localhost:18.0
> [bevan at odin ~]> xterm &
> [1] 4491
> <xterm appears>

Trust me, I do, but this coworker refuses to use ssh. He wants rlogin.
He still is using 6.2. It has taken a lot of pushing just to get him to
use Fedora. 

-- 
Edward M. Croft
Sr. Systems Engineer
Open Ratings, Inc.
200 West Street
Waltham, MA 02451-1121