,--[ On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:52:21AM +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: | Hello folks! | | I know that this question is offtopic for this list, but maybe | someone has a clue nonetheless... | | I'm trying to access my local X display (on a Gentoo Linux machine, | of course - am I now on topic? *G*) from a remote system (running | Solaris 10U4 on Sparc). I cannot use ssh to login to that machine. | To be somewhat secure, I tried to use xauth, but that doesn't | work.... | | What did I do? | | On the local system, I did: | | xauth extract xauth.key $DISPLAY:0.0
Above line should read: xauth extract xauth.key $DISPLAY Anyways if your above command is incorrect, then no xauth.key would've been generated :) . [snipped] | Internet Protocol, Src: 10.0.1.26 (10.0.1.26), Dst: 10.0.3.115 (10.0.3.115) [snipped] | X11, Request, Initial connection request | byte-order: 0x42 (Big-endian) | unused | protocol-major-version: 11 | protocol-minor-version: 0 | authorization-protocol-name-length: 0 | authorization-protocol-data-length: 0 | unused Note, in the above request, it hasn't passed your xauth information, which is possible only in 2 cases, either your $HOME/.Xauthority on $remote doesn't exist or $XAUTHORITY environment variable points to a non-existent file. HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- -- freed.in | freedom in technology and software | 22-24 February 2008 | Delhi ··-· ·-· · · -·· ·-·-·- ·· -· ··--- ----- ----- ---··
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