Re: os x x11 server and linux fc8 client
Re: os x x11 server and linux fc8 client
- Subject: Re: os x x11 server and linux fc8 client
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:46:47 -0800
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2008, Fernando Aristides Castro wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I manage to serve x11 to other mac machines but I've not
> been successful to serve x11 to linux boxes. If I revert the
> situation, i.e. linux boxes serving x11 to mac os x x11 clients, there
> is no problem.
>
> The mac os x machines can be either a MBP running 10.5.1 with x11
> 2.1.3 or a imac running mac os X 10.4.11 with x11 1.1.3.
>
> I connect always using ssh -Y user@machine after xhost +
>
> then I set the DISPLAY variable
Why would you do this? Ssh handles this for you so long as you have
``X11Forwarding yes'' in sshd_config file on the remote machine.
With ssh one doesn't have to worry about xhost or setting DISPLAY, which is
why I would use it even if security wasn't an issue.
Bill
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