[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could do it a little kludge-ily by adding the laptop's IP or actual hostname in /etc/X0.hosts (you might possibly even be able to add <laptophostname>.*
If you have to add it each time, you'll have to, obviously, restart xdm. But it's certainly doable. Hope it helps? Regards, Glen > Subject: Re: Problem forwarding X over ssh > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:17:58 -0400 > From: William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Gary Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:49:55PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > what network it was attached to. This local name doesn't necessarily > > correspond to its real name on the network and thus ssh was setting > > the display to this local name instead of the laptops real network > > name. Obviously this disallows a functional forward of X11. > > > > In my case I need to figure out how to set the host name to the "real" > > name of the laptop depending on what network it resides (maybe PCMCIA > > has some provision for this?). For now I can set it's host name > > manually via the "hostname" command to it's real network name and that > > fixes the problem. > > You might be able to get around it by generating a cookie for the host name > as it is seen from the network: > > xauth generate outside.name:0 . > > Dunno if that will work or not. > > -- > William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada > A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and > out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. > -- brian moore > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Glen S Mehn GoMo.com Systems Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can your email do this? http://www.gomomail.com