Re: Unable to display remote xterm under RH FC3

From: Herbert Pophal (pophal_at_zrz.TU-Berlin.DE)
Date: 07/20/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 23:00:56 +0200

dirty.harry@juno.com wrote:
>
> Not that it should matter but I'm not using ssh.

You'd better do that.

> it can't open the display on mymachine.

Probably your X server is invoked with the option -nolisten tcp. Thus it
doesn't listen for tcp connections at all.

> Plus I have performed an xhost
> + on mymachine which is supposed to allow clients from any host to
> connect.

You don't need nor should need any xhost commands when using ssh.

Herbert

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