xhost not working?

[Neal D. Becker]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 15:19, Mikko Paananen wrote:
> Wed, 2003-11-05 22:03, Jay Harris wrote:
> > While we're waiting for the download... has the Xserver changed
> > the way it allows incoming windows?  I can no longer get Xwindows
> > to display on my FCT3 desktop from RH9 or Solaris boxes. It seems
> > xhost+ has no affect. I didn't notice this earlier since most of
> > my windowing is now done through ssh.
>
> Gdm starts X-Server so that it's not listening network. Gdm has setting
> in config file to change this.
>
> root      8792  8791  1 07:29 ?  00:12:12 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0
> -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You should use ssh anyway.
>

It's too slow.  Running xemacs client on a cygwin machine, which is very fast, 
connected to a blazingly fast fedora1 machine running the Xserver, over a 
100MBPS network.

It's fine running a direct X connection, after removing -nolisten tcp.