Re: Question re: x-terminal access with xhost under ssh session to remote x-server.
Re: Question re: x-terminal access with xhost under ssh session to remote x-server.
- Subject: Re: Question re: x-terminal access with xhost under ssh session to remote x-server.
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 12:43:53 -0800
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006, Edward Mozley Roche wrote:
>Things have been working fine for several years, but suddenly, my mac
>seems to have changed it's "hostname". Its registered name metallic-
>hydrogen.com is changed in the x-terminal prompt to metallic-hydrogen-
>com See that the .com is changed to -com The effect of this is that
>the x-server host [a sun machine] does not recognize the machine when
>it attempts to pass back the x-window session.
>Is anyone else having this problem?
>NB: The reverse DNS is working fine.
As a general rule, it's far easier to use ssh's X11 forwarding
than to deal with xhosts and the $DISPLAY environment variable.
Bill
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