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RE: Running remote X apps
- To: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: Running remote X apps
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:33:37 -0500
or try xhost + no ipa ddress, to turn xclient security off for the present
shell.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:25 PM
> To: 'Timothy J. Massey'; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Running remote X apps
>
>
> I do what you are talking about; I usually type:
> xhost my.ip.address
>
> Notice, I don't type a '+' in front of my ip address; this
> may be the root
> of your problem.
>
> Harold
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy J. Massey [mailto:tmassey@modernmerchant.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Running remote X apps
>
>
> Hello!
>
> I have the X server running on my local NT machine. I must say I
> haven't been this excited since I had an X server running on my OS/2
> workstation... ;)
>
> Now, on to the next step. I have a Linux box that I want to
> use to run
> remote X apps. On the NT workstation I tried to use the
> xhost command:
>
> D:\WIN32\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>xhost +204.238.175.35
> xhost: unable to open display ""
>
> As you can see, I get an error. Am I doing something correct, or am I
> just jumping the gun on this?
>
> Thank you very much for your help. It will be nice to have
> an X server
> running on my NT workstation: I won't have to switch over to
> the Linux
> box to get to the X apps I occasionally need...
>
> Tim Massey
>
>