xhost not working?
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 5 20:12:31 UTC 2003
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, 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.
Xserver no longer listings on the tcp port - which is required for
your - non-ssh-x11-forward stuff to work.
If you wish to enable this - add the following to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf - and restart X
DisallowTCP=false
Disclaimer: this usage - via 'xhost +' is insecure - and should be avoided.
Satish
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