displaying remote apps without ssh
displaying remote apps without ssh
- Subject: displaying remote apps without ssh
- From: Bryan Oakley <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 12:41:22 -0500
Is it possible to display remote apps without using ssh? I'm on a VPN
and need (well, want badly) to be able to rsh to an internal machine
and display apps on my display.
I'm pretty certain I have X configured properly. On my box I can do
"xclock -display x.x.x.x:0.0" and it works. I can set DISPLAY to
x.x.x.x:0.0, do 'ssh -X remote' and do "xclock" and it works fine.
The problem is when I rsh to remote and do "xclock -display
x.x.x.x:0.0". I've tried doing "xhost +" on my local box as well as
doing the 'xauth merge' dance on the remote box, but nothing seems to
work. I've also tried unchecking the "authenenticate connections" box
in the X11.app preferences. I've also done "defaults write
com.apple.x11 no_auth true" and "defaults write com.apple.x11
nolisten_tcp false", and still no joy. In all cases I get "Error: Can't
open display: x.x.x.x:0.0 after a long wait.
I'd like to know if this should work, or if it could work with some
additional configuration, and/or how I can go about debugging why it
won't work.
FWIW, I'm running 10.2.6, and I've tried X11.app beta 2 and 3. I've
tried remote machines running linux and aix, and on the linux box I
know someone else who can display apps remotely from that box to his
own linux box, so I don't think it's a problem with the remote machine.
If you're tempted to say "just use ssh -X; it's better", that's not the
answer I'm looking for. While that may be true, I have reasons why I
want to be able to do this with rsh. Maybe not good reasons, but
reasons nontheless.
--
Bryan Oakley
bryan at bitmover dot com
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