Hidong Kim wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm unable to launch X applications in another user's KDE session. For > example, I log onto the computer as user kim and start KDE. In an > xterm, I telnet to the same machine and log in as user andre. If user > andre tries to launch an X application, he gets the error: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > ezppp: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > > How do I fix this? I'm running Mandrake 6.1 kernel 2.2.13-7mdk, XFree86 > 3.3.5. Thanks, > > Hidong Hmm, I'm no linux expert ( yet ) but I got the same "MAGIC COOKIE" thing trying to run printtool to set up my new printer. A local linux guru helped me, and I'm not quite upto speed on what this command does, but it has something to do with X.. Try running in a terminal xhost +localhost try as user first.. Alan -- ====================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) running Linux Mandrake 6.1 and/or BeOS.
