Mark David Dumlao <madum...@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
> I believe you're looking for the "xhost" command and its archaic
> permissions setup settings.
>
> The idea is that the machine hosting the X server has an additional
> permissions setting that controls which
> hosts are allowed to use the X displays.
>
> Since you say that it's apparently the debian host that doesn't allow
> launching of X programs,
> what happens if, from the working GUI on the debian host, you run:
> xhost +
I thought I had indicated it was the gentoo machine with the problem.
But I guess you could see it the other way round.
I'm getting myself a little confused here; this is what happens:
If I do: Gentoo ssh -X debian "xterm" it fails. The error message
changes with diffent options set but generally it cannot open a
display on localhost
Now the other way round:
debian ssh -X gentoo "xterm" works fine
> Before you try connecting to it from the gentoo machine? It should say
> something like
> access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
>
> And you should be able to open your xterm using ssh -X.
Doing `xhost +' on debian before ssh -x from gentoo does not help a
bit.
Apparently as others have indicated it is a long standing gentoo
problem.
But since -Y works... well I'm about ready to go on about my business
and ignore the failure of -X.
