Xhost (was Re: Remote Server XDMCP)

Alexander Gottwald alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Oct 11 09:40:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Robert Collins wrote:

> xhost is included in the xfree binary distribution. It might not be in your
> path however if you have simply untarred the tarballs.
> 
> > > xhost + hostname
> > You mention xhost, but I can't find it anywhere in the cygwin
> installation...
> > thus I can't run xterm on a remote box and display it on my
> Win2K/CygwinXfree
> > box.
> >
> > Have you any suggestions?

Start the server with command switch -ac. This will disable Access 
Control. Unfortunatly this will enable access from everywhere. But
in noncritical use, this should not be a big problem. 

Unfortunatly -ac won't work with Xvfb and Xggi. They only print 
something like "Unsupported Option" and show the command switches in
Messageboxes (and -ac as 2nd or 3rd)

cu

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