Strange xhost behavior- Please help!!
Kercso Jozsef
jozsefke@freemail.hu
Mon Nov 4 23:47:00 GMT 2002
Hi!
You have right, I've made a mistake in the presentation of the problem:
the "export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0" at the second host must be:
"export DISPLAY=<FIRST_HOST_IP>:0.0"
However only the presentation was bad, the problem is the same.
I can ping the first machine from the second.
Best Regards
Jozsef Kercso
>Jozsef,
>You example makes no sense at all. The problem is that 127.0.0.1
> is a fake address that is only used for connections that loop back
> to the local machine that you are on. You cannot connect across the
> network to the machine with address 127.0.0.1 because *every* machine
> on the network has the idea that it is machine 127.0.0.1. You need to use the
> real IP address of that machine that you want to connect to, and make sure
> that you can actually ping it before trying this again.
> Harold
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