Re: [Sheflug] xhost

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, ross wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 May 2001 23:11, you wrote:
> > Try: export DISPLAY="<ipaddress>:0.0"
> 
> ok.... i've given this a go and still get the same results :-(

Ok, just to make absolutely sure, you do the following:
you are sitting at machine A. On A you do
xhost +B
telnet B
then on B
export DISPLAY=<A_ip>:0.0
(if running bash on B)
xterm & 
and expecting an xterm (or whatever other application) window to appear on
A. Are you waiting long enough? What does B say to xterm &? What
application are you trying? If you are trying something like StarOffice or
Netscape, try xterm first - it should get to you faster. If you still
don't get it... Well, maybe some firewall settings or hosts.deny? But here
I can't help, sorry. Others will know better. BTW, isn't B behind a
firewall?

Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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