On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 08:00 PM, Shaofeng Yang wrote:
> Hello, > I want to connect to another linux machine using x windows from fink. > I mean I want to display the gui of that linux machine? > Anybody can help me out? > Thanks a lot. assume two machines linux.remotedomain, and macosx.localdomain [macosx:~] username% ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: linux% xcalc & xcalc should then display on your terminal by the way, if, for some reason, the ssh X11 forwarding fails, try linux% DISPLAY = macosx.localdomain:0.0 There's a number of ways, besides ssh to authenticate X11 connections. xauth is considerably more secure than xhost. To initiate xauth [macosx:~] username% xauth list This should list something along the lines of macosx.localdomain MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 33dda2aa76a.... if it doesn't [macosx:~] username% xauth generate :0 on the remote machine linux% xauth add <xauth line> where <xauth line> is the relevant output from the "xauth list" command. Jeremy Erwin _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users