Re: Remote application
Re: Remote application
- Subject: Re: Remote application
- From: Jerry Talkington <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 10:11:14 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:37:06AM -0700, Jan Theron wrote:
> I am trying to run a remote X-windows application (on a Linux system) from
> my Mac, but after typing in the command, get the following error message (I
> replaced my IP address in the message with some text) that appears to
> indicate that the remote server cannot connect to my machine (I turned off
> my firewall for the exercise):
>
> overgrid
> [1] 24878
> [jnt7@rotor3 jnt7]$ Xlib: connection to "ip address:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
You need to "Allow connections from network clients" in the Mac's X11
preferences, but I wouldn't recommend it, for security reasons.
I've got instructions for a secure (and pretty simple) way of running
remote applications at http://smartasfuck.com/info/X11/ .
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