How do you export an x-session in Fedora

[WipeOut]

Edward Croft wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 18:04, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
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>>Keven Ring wrote:
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>>>Edward Croft wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0
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>>>>We tried something different and this is the response.
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>>>>201]==> setenv DISPLAY ecroft:0
>>>>[202]==> xterm
>>>>_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>>>>_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
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>>>How about an xhost +<machine name> on ecroft, where <machine name> is 
>>>the machine that you are running the xterm on?
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>>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.
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>>[bevan at saladin ~]> ssh odin
>>[bevan at odin ~]> printenv DISPLAY
>>localhost:18.0
>>[bevan at odin ~]> xterm &
>>[1] 4491
>><xterm appears>
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>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. 
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I am guessing security is not high on his list of priorities!!