X server refusing remote clients
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Mon Feb 14 19:57:42 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:54, Douglas Frank wrote:
> Hopefully this is just another config issue that's not written down
> anywhere :-)
>
> On my FC3 box I can e.g. 'oclock -display :0' and it displays as it
> should.
>
> However a remote oclock client trying to display back to FC3 e.g.
> 'oclock -display <IP-adrs>:0' fails with 'Error: Can't open display'
>
> Any ideas? I've temporarily shut down the firewall and have used both
> xhost + and xauth to give the client permissions, nothing is working....
Did you try ssh -X or ssh -Y when you connected?
Need to make sure that X11 forwarding is enabled.
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