Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:12:28 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird X problem Message-ID: <20020821141228.GA22249@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020821091517.A16327@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <20020821091517.A16327@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:15:17AM -0400, Steve Tremblett wrote:
> I just upgraded my laptop to XFree86 4.2 and everything seemed to work,
> but I just discovered a MADDENING problem.
>
> I have xhost lines in my xinitrc to allow remote X programs for a
> handful of machines, but since upgrading 4.0->4.2 those machines can't
> display on the server. I checked the xhost commands, and the hostnames
> are correct. I tried using the IP address instead with no success.
> The workstation can ping the laptop, so it isn't a network problem. It
> all comes down to the laptop not allowing X clients that xhost says it
> should.
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx was recently modified to use the '-nolisten tcp'
flag by default when starting up the X server. If 'netstat -a' shows
nothing listening on port 6000 or so when X is running, that's
probably what's biting you.
Either type:
startx -listen_tcp
or preferably do what Brian suggested, and use ssh's built in
mechanism for tunnelling X stuff across the network.
Cheers,
Matthew
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