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Date:      Sun, 07 Apr 2002 11:08:16 +0200
From:      Flemming Froekjaer <flemming@froekjaer.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Remote X. How?
Message-ID:  <3CB00C80.4070007@froekjaer.org>

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How do I allow remote clients to connect to my X server?
If I set the DISPLAY enviroment variable to the X servers IP and start 
xterm I get a connection refused by server.

This is what happens:

 >export DISPLAY=192.168.200.2:0.0
sleipner:flemming
~
 >xterm &
[1] 309
sleipner:flemming
~
 >Xlib: connection to "192.168.200.2:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 192.168.200.2:0.0

[1]+  Exit 1                  xterm
sleipner:flemming
~
 >


\Flemming



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