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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2003 12:38:04 -0400
From:      Tim Kellers <timothyk@wallnet.com>
To:        "D. Theunissen" <danzel@home.nl>, <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Starting an application thrue vnc results in an error.
Message-ID:  <200304201238.04151.timothyk@wallnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c3067a$7083f9e0$4900a8c0@cp297018a>
References:  <000c01c3067a$7083f9e0$4900a8c0@cp297018a>

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On Saturday 19 April 2003 09:49 am, D. Theunissen wrote:
> Hi there, I hope some of u can help me with this problem. I've installed
> tightvnc and it works fine. When I connect to my server on 192.168.0.67 an
> try to start 'grip' (a cdripper program) I get the following errors:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1 vnc
>
> Can anyone help me with this one?
>
> Tnx in advance.
>
> Danny

on the machine you are starting the application from, type:

xhost 192.168.0.67

at a shell prompt.

FreeBSD's security model rejects remote X commands by default unless you 
specifically  allow the remote machines to connect.

Tim Kellers
CPE/NJIT



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