xterm error question

[GoijI P]

did ,xhost +, on HostA:
access control disabled,
clients can connect from any host

did , echo $DISPLAY, on HostA:
:0.0

did, echo $DISPLAY, on HostB:
HostA:0.0

tried setenv with HOSTAIP:0.0
,still came with same xterm error.


>From: Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
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>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: xterm error question
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:10:56 -0700
>
>GoijI P wrote:
>>from host A, did:
>>telnet HostB
>>setenv DISPLAY HostA:0.0
>>In another terminal on HostA terminal did: xhost +
>>in telnet session terminal did: xterm
>>got this error:
>>xterm Xt error.
>>can't open display HostA:0.0
>>
>>HostB is NIS client.
>>
>>/etc/hosts and /etc/passwd files look ok
>>on NIS server and client.
>
>Are you certain the display name is HostA:0.0?  Sometimes they're just
>HostA:0 (no decimal point).  On HostA, "echo $DISPLAY" and make sure
>HostB uses that ID.  You may also need to specify it via IP address
>unless "HostA" resolves via DNS or /etc/hosts files.
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