Running remote X apps

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

or try xhost + no ipa ddress, to turn xclient security off for the present
shell.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [ mailto:Harold@compasstechnologies.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:25 PM
> To: 'Timothy J. Massey'; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: Running remote X apps
> 
> 
> I do what you are talking about; I usually type:
> xhost my.ip.address
> 
> Notice, I don't type a '+' in front of my ip address; this 
> may be the root
> of your problem.
> 
> Harold
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy J. Massey [ mailto:tmassey@modernmerchant.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:33 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Running remote X apps
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I have the X server running on my local NT machine.  I must say I
> haven't been this excited since I had an X server running on my OS/2
> workstation...  ;)
> 
> Now, on to the next step.  I have a Linux box that I want to 
> use to run
> remote X apps.  On the NT workstation I tried to use the 
> xhost command:
> 
> D:\WIN32\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin>xhost +204.238.175.35
> xhost:  unable to open display ""
> 
> As you can see, I get an error.  Am I doing something correct, or am I
> just jumping the gun on this?
> 
> Thank you very much for your help.  It will be nice to have 
> an X server
> running on my NT workstation:  I won't have to switch over to 
> the Linux
> box to get to the X apps I occasionally need...
> 
> Tim Massey
> 
>