On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:48:43PM -0400, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Duncan Watson wrote:
>
> :ssh is not an option as the hosts I actually need to use don't have ssh and
> :I am not an admin on all of them.
>
> That sucks :(
[snip]
> :I need to get tcp X connections working. Hell I even delved down into
> :xauth man pages. I was really hoping that would help.
>
> Scarry stuff, that man page.
>
> well, you've done the xhost +<host>, set the DISPLAY variable on the
> remote session, and checked that the "-nolisten tcp" flag is *not*
> being sent at X startup, hummm.
>
> Have you verified that X is really listening? "netstat -tl" will show
> all listening tcp ports you shouls see port 6000 open if display :0 is
> listening (6001 for :1 etc.)
Excellent set of switches to netstat. Thanks.
X is not listening. So even though I changed /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and
removed the "-nolisten tcp" stuff X is still not open a TCP port to listen
on.
I have installed "xfree86-common 4.0.2-1", could it be that it is a compile
time option?
>
> If it really is listening, I'd start wondering about packet filtering
> rules, have you messed around with ipchains or iptables (I'm assuming
> you've run remote clients from these machines else where and no
> filtering is going on there)?
>
> -Jon
>
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