On 13 Apr 2003, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote: > On Son, 2003-04-13 at 02:01, Fred Heitkamp wrote: > > I have changed the default xserverrc by deleting > > the nolisten but I still get "can't open display" > > when trying to open windows on Debian from a > > remote computer. > > You'd probably have to allow access with xhost, but you better forget > about that, put the -nolisten tcp back and use ssh X forwarding instead, > or is there a reason why you can't or don't want to use that?
I normally use xhost + on the server and export DISPLAY.... on the client. I have a small home network behind a home firewall router so I don't worry much about security and eavesdropping. I will try using X forwarding with SSH though, since that is a good practice to adopt. I still am curious why the Debian box will not let clients connect the bad way. I must be forgetting something else. Fred
