[K12OSN] Broadcast message

[Petre Scheie]

On the client, try opening a terminal and running

xhost +

and then try the xmessage command at the server.  I'm not suggesting this as a 
solution because of the security holes it presents; this is just a 
troubleshooting step to try to isolate the problem.

Petre

Huck wrote:
> 
> 
> David Trask wrote:
> 
>>
>>> One requirement is that the client workstation must be configured to
>>> accept such messages, which in my server-and-one-client K12LSTP ver 
>>> 3.0.1 here in my
>>> cube, the clients are not.  This can be fixed by adding
>>>
>>> xhost +192.168.0.254
>>>
>>> to every user's ~/.profile.  This will allow such messages to be sent
>>>   
>>> from the 
>>
>>  
>>
>>> server, but not from other clients which could be a nightmare, e.g.
>>> clever students with too much time on their hands.
>>>
>>> Hopefully this is a start.
>>>   
> 
> 
> I put a .profile in /home/housad  with the 'xhost +192.168.0.254'
> chown housad:housad .profile
> 
> then did the following...and then got these Xlib errors...so wondering?? 
> how can we solve this? =)
> 
> [root at ltsp root]# who
> housad   ws248.ltsp:0 Nov  1 15:55 (ws248.ltsp)
> root     pts/1        Nov  1 15:57 (10.1.3.128)
> root     :0           Oct 15 15:58
> [root at ltsp root]# xmessage -center -timeout 30 -display ws248.ltsp:0.0 
> could you logout please?
> Xlib: connection to "ws248.ltsp:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> Error: Can't open display: ws248.ltsp:0.0
> [root at ltsp root]# xmessage -center -timeout 30 -display ws248.ltsp:0 
> could you logout please?
> Xlib: connection to "ws248.ltsp:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> 
> Error: Can't open display: ws248.ltsp:0
> 
> --Huck
> 
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