Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
- Subject: Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 21:36:55 -0800
Ok, but honestly, I think this is a bit more trouble than its worth.
ssh does a great job of forwarding X11 automatically for you and it
encrypts to boot. I know it's not what you're used to doing, but you
might find it easier in the end to use ssh over telnet + DISPLAY
setting + xauth setting.
Glad we could help,
Jeremy
On Jan 8, 2008, at 19:25, Richard Siek wrote:
Jeremy,
Thanks for the reply. I had never used xauth before, but based on
your email and one from Merle Reinhart I read the manpage on xauth,
generated an .Xauthority entry on my MacBook, and merged the entry
into the .Xauthority files in the home directory on my two Solaris
boxes. Things are working great for me now.
Rick
On Jan 8, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Jan 8, 2008, at 15:08, Richard Siek wrote:
This X11 environment seems rather fragile. I finally managed to
get X11 windows from my Solaris box to display back to my Leopard
MacBook by using ssh instead of telnet. Then I made the mistake of
trying to telnet from my MacBook to Solaris, and manually setting
DISPLAY to localhost:10.0.
When I accessed xclock It failed with the error:
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
This is failing because you don't have your xauth set to allow this.
which didn't bother me too much, I really didn't have very high
hopes that it would work.
But now I can no longer display back from my Solaris box to my
MacBook, even using ssh. I get the error
$ xclock
/tmp/launch-TvW8ES/: unknown host. (nodename nor servname
provided, or not known)
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
Uh, is this from your solaris box? I think you somehow set DISPLAY
on it to the launchd socket on your mac... which shouldn't work.
Just use ssh instead of telnet. There is no reason to use telnet
for what you're trying to do.
And on a side note, tcp/ip connection is allowed, but you must
enable it in X11's preferences, and you need to do 'xhost + <ip
address to allow to connect>' locally first. you should also check
what the display is via 'ps x | grep X'. Look for something like ':
0' or ':1'.
--Jeremy
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