How do you export an x-session in Fedora

David G. Mackay mackay_d at bellsouth.net
Sat Mar 6 03:16:05 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 17:04, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> Keven Ring wrote:
> > Edward Croft wrote:
> > 
> >> One of my coworkers is trying to export his Xwindows desktop to another
> >> machine and is having no luck. The error he gets is similar to the one
> >> below.
> >>
> >> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:0
> >>
> >> We tried something different and this is the response.
> >>
> >> 201]==> setenv DISPLAY ecroft:0
> >> [202]==> xterm
> >> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> >> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> > How about an xhost +<machine name> on ecroft, where <machine name> is 
> > the machine that you are running the xterm on?
> 
> How about just using ssh's built-in X-forwarding?
> It's really one of the best features of ssh, as it can pretty well do 
> away with all that horrible DISPLAY fiddling and xhost munging.

I'm using a laptop running RH9 to connect to a desktop running FC1.  SSH
is the only method that works.  xhost +, and xdm both tell me that I
can't open the display.  And, there is NO firewall running on the
machines on the intranet

Dave






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