Re: [opensuse] NX client cannot connect. gets: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key fixed

xhost + is used only on my client machine and it's WAY behind a firewall
you can be sure.
thnx..
wcn

Dave Howorth wrote:
Wendell Nichols wrote:

I upgraded my nxclient to 3.2.14 today and couldn't connect to any of my
existing sessions on server machines. That is very bad because I make
my living doing that! After a lot of googling and trial and error I
found that I had to do:
xhost +
and the connection was successful.


I don't know if security is an issue in your situation. If these
machines are at all exposed you probably don't want to use xhost +

Google xhost security for more info.

Cheers, Dave


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