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Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
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Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11


  • Subject: Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
  • From: Richard Siek <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:18:22 -0500


Merle,

Thanks for the prompt response. You were right, it was the firewall blocking traffic that was preventing the X11 client windows on my Solaris box from displaying back to my MacBook X11 server process. It is working great now.

Did you manually configure ipfw to open port 6000? So far I have just been using the firewall settings in System Preferences. X11 display back works with either "Allow all incoming connections" or with "Set access for specific services and applications", with X11.app and Xquartz added as applications for which incoming connections should be allowed.

Rick


On Jan 8, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Merle Reinhart wrote:

Actually, this does work in Leopard, just as it did in Tiger (you just don't have to start X11 locally first). All the same stuff applies with Leopard; make sure that port 6000 is open to the remote machine in your Mac firewall; setup the xauth information or run xhost on the Mac to allow the connection to the xserver from the solaris box.

Merle




On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Richard Siek wrote:

I am a telecommuter and thus the only person on my LAN. So I am not particularly concerned about machine to machine security on my LAN. Thus, my practice has been to telnet from Mac to my SUN/Solaris box and have my .profile automatically set DISPLAY to the IP Address of my Mac. I could run GUI apps on Solaris and they would display back to my Mac with no problem. That was under Tiger.

With Leopard, that all stopped working. I spent a lot of time Googling and searching Apple discussions and could find no solution. But I did see references to people using ssh and displaying back successfully. So I finally installed and configured sshd on my SUN Solaris box and set the following sshd X11 tunneling options in /usr/local/etc/sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes


After doing that I could ssh -Y user@remote-machine and get X GUI apps to display back finally.

Yes, this is more secure. But I still consider it a bug that X11 on Leopard will not support telneting to a remote computer, then setting DISPLAY to the Mac X Windows server machine's IP address: 0.0, such as 192.168.10.6:0.0.

Or is there a way to do this and I just haven't discovered it yet?

Rick




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 >Remote client display to Leopard X11 (From: Richard Siek <email@hidden>)
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