On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Cesare Tagliaferri wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > > >Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from > >Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on > >my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However, > >I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to > >connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian > >that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's > >ISP service, or what? > > > >Any clues as to how I can connect? > > > You have to do, on the machine running the server: > > xhost "client ip" > > this will authorize the client. >
I tried this earlier today and it didn't work, but I tried it again just now and it worked. I guess I just wasn't holding my mouth right* when I tried earlier. *For those from other cultures, this means "I don't have an explanation for the phenomenon so it must be attributable to the nuances of facial inflexion." -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
