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Alan Peery wrote:
>> I have an IBM Thinkpad running Red Hat 7.2. Its networking protocol is
>> DHCP. I can't run a remote X session on this machine. For example, I
>> put it on our network, and do 'xhost +192.168.230.201', which is a
>> machine on our Linux NIS network. Then when I log in to 192.168.230.201
>> from the Thinkpad, and try to run an X app, like Netscape, I get a
>> message like "cannot connect to newt.emeraldbiostructures.com:0.0 [the
>> Thinkpad]". Is there something in addition to 'xhost' that needs to be
>> done to run a remote X session on a DHCP machine?
>
>The DHCP bit shouldn't have anything to do with it. I suspect that you have
>firewall rules blocking access to port 6000 ( :0.0 => 6000) from other
>clients. Try "man iptables"
Maybe, but sounds more likely that DISPLAY is incorrect on the target.
Since those are private IPs, we can't tell from this post.
Instead of messing with xhost, just connect using ssh, and this is all
done for you. Just make sure ForwardX11 is enabled for the client
(ssh_config) and that X11Forwarding is enabled on the server
(sshd_config).
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