xhost not working?

[Mikko Paananen]

Wed, 2003-11-05 22:03, Jay Harris wrote:
> While we're waiting for the download... has the Xserver changed
> the way it allows incoming windows?  I can no longer get Xwindows
> to display on my FCT3 desktop from RH9 or Solaris boxes. It seems
> xhost+ has no affect. I didn't notice this earlier since most of
> my windowing is now done through ssh.

Gdm starts X-Server so that it's not listening network. Gdm has setting
in config file to change this.

root      8792  8791  1 07:29 ?  00:12:12 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
-audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You should use ssh anyway.