forwarded X display through telnet?

dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

Hello, I have a Sun 5.8 box that has a few X apps that need to be forwarded to my Gentoo box.

normally, this entails: # xhost + to get the box to accept connections, and then basically you are good to go. This does currently work with both RedHat and Windows 2000 (With Exceed).

However, my Gentoo box will not allow the connections. What can I do?

trapperjohn · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject:

Check if your Gentoo's xserver is started WITHOUT the parameter '-nolisten tcp'. If you use gdm, it's in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf .

tmr777 · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:01 pm Post subject:

Not sure if you can install sshd on the old sun box, but I love ssh for X forwarding:

dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

SSH is not an option. The sun box is very old, and it works, so we'd like to leave it be until it's fazed out (soon!). However, I still need it for the meantime. And just a note: That I CAN "ssh -X" to machines and pull X displays from them. So I don't know if it's the -nolisten tcp suggestion someone gave.

dleifelohcs · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 160 Location: UNH

-nolisten tcp definitely didn't work.

ANY suggestions?

trapperjohn · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 5:29 pm Post subject:

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