From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 12: 0:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B31E37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:00:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntl.com (pc1-glfd2-4-cust59.glfd.cable.ntl.com [81.99.187.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 452FF43ED4 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:00:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from aqua.lan.palfreman.com (localhost.lan.palfreman.com [127.0.0.1]) by ntl.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gBJJ7nfH034148 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:07:50 GMT (envelope-from william@palfreman.com) Received: from localhost (william@localhost) by aqua.lan.palfreman.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id gBJJ7nrP034145 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:07:49 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: aqua.lan.palfreman.com: william owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:07:49 +0000 (GMT) From: William Palfreman X-X-Sender: william@aqua.lan.palfreman.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running X-clients on remote hosts. Message-ID: <20021219184204.I958-100000@aqua.lan.palfreman.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How can I allow Xfree86 to listen for network connections again? I certainly used to have no problem doing this, and I don't see anything about this specific and probably very simple problem in the handbook or googling. I'm running an X server on my workstation (Xfree86 4.1) on my workstation (FreeBSD 4.6.2-p3) and I wan to have X-clients connect from other machine, for example xload. So, on logged into the remote host (using bash) I enter "export DISPLAY=wks:0" and on my workstation I enter "xhost +". Then on the remote host I enter "xload &" and all I get is "Error: Can't open display: wks:0" Then, if I go to a virtual terminal on my workstation (i.e. press ctrl-alt-F3) and enter "export DISPLAY=wks:0" then "xhost +" I get 'xhost: unable to open display "wks:0"'. If I replace the (DNS-valid) hostname with localhost exactly the same thing happens. I've tested this from a friend's Windows 98 box which has Hummingbird Exceed installed on it, and there is no problem running X-clients on it, by sshing in and doing "export DISPLAY=ant:0". So I know the problem is with my workstation's X server. So what should I do to make X network aware? It currently only seems to work as "export DISPLAY=:0" TIA, Bill. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message