Fedora will not display remote X

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Wed Feb 16 22:02:10 UTC 2005


At least for fc > 3 as client OS (i.e where the X-server resides. the
box with you and the keyboard ;) ), if you want to forward X11 over ssh,
you'l need the -X (and possibly -Y for "full access") flags on the ssh
comand-line, in order to forward X11 over ssh. RTFM...

ons, 16.02.2005 kl. 22.37 skrev Gary P Carr:
> I have a Fedora 1 system I've just set up.
> 
> I cannot seem to get the system to allow display of remote X apps on Fedora 
> host.
> 
> I have firewall turned off, try setting "xhost +" to allow all connections, 
> but any attempt to run remote application is denied. I can ping fedora 
> host, or ssh into it from remote.
> 
> If I ssh to the remote host, then applications run fine through the ssh tunnel.
> 
> I am new to Linux administration, am I missing something simple here?
> 




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