XWin -indirect

[Bill Schaffer]

Thanks!

That was the tip I needed.  The one machine that couldn't access the 
others via "XWin -query" was the one I picked to test with.  I went 
over to one of the other Win systems, did the "-indirect" and had no 
problems.

A Windows firewall issue.

I hate when that happens.

Thanks muchly,
-Bill





Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Bill Schaffer wrote:
> 
> 
>>The problem:
>>
>>Well, the user does get the list of systems, however, they can only
>>access the system specified as the parameter to the "indirect" option.
>>  All of the other systems are blocked from accessing the XWin server
>>on the user's machine, including the user's own machine.  An excerpt
>>from kdm log output on one of the Linux systems:
>>
>>      Hung in XOpenDisplay(users_system_addr:0), aborting
>>      server open failed for users_system_addr:0, giving up
>>
>>This seems like an access control problem with XWin at the user's
>>system.  I would like to run "xhost +" but the local system can't
>>access XWin either.  (Yes, I realize the security implications, but
>>want to get it working first)  I have tried establishing an
>>"/etc/X0.host" file, but XWin seems to disregard it.
> 
> 
> XDMCP overrides the xhost access system. More likely a firewall is blocking
> access from the system. Are all hosts on the same network?
> 
> Running some tracing with tcpdump may help.
> 
> bye
>         ago
> NP: SITD - Wegweiser

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