On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Chris Carlen wrote:

Hi:

Earlier my question was how to allow other users on the same machine to run X programs.

Now I want to know how to allow a user on another machine to display on my machine.

not sure whether I understand what you are saying. You want to display the X window that runs on another machine to which you telnet to show on your machine, right?

In the past I simply did:

mymachine> xhost +othermachine

mymachine> telnet othermachine

othermachine> export DISPLAY=mymachine:0

othermachine> konqueror&

Then konqueror from othermachine would appear on mymachine.

Now in Suse 9.1 it appears I can't do this.

simply open up port 6000 on your firewall and you should be able to do that.

I went to this article, and tried the first suggestion

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/04/tsaupe_export.html

So I did:

mymachine> ssh -X othermachine kwrite password: bash: line 1: kwrite: command not found mymachine>

Then I found this works:

mymachine> ssh -X othermachine password: othermachine> kwrite&

Ok, so it works. But I really don't want to have to go through ssh. This is a trusted LAN with only me and my wife. She isn't going to be trying to crack my net when she has my password anyway.

why not make it a habit to go through ssh?

I would like to be able to go back to the simpler, less secure way. Is this possible?

I actually think it is much simpler than the less secure way. You have to type the xhost and the export DISPLAY command while with ssh -X you don't have to do anything... Best regards, Alex.

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On Saturday 14 August 2004 01:05, Chris Carlen wrote:

mymachine> ssh -X othermachine kwrite password: bash: line 1: kwrite: command not found mymachine>

Just specify the whole path to the application, then it works. Here's an example that I use everyday: ssh -X leen@10.0.0.1 /opt/kde3/bin/kmail

Then I found this works:

mymachine> ssh -X othermachine password: othermachine> kwrite&

Ok, so it works. But I really don't want to have to go through ssh. This is a trusted LAN with only me and my wife. She isn't going to be trying to crack my net when she has my password anyway.

I would like to be able to go back to the simpler, less secure way. Is this possible?

In addition to what Sid already said: X :1 -once -broadcast # gives chooser (?) (broken in xorg) X :1 -once -indirect 10.0.0.1 # gives chooser (broken in xorg) X :1 -once -query 10.0.0.1 # gives login dialog (e.g. kdm) (seems to work without vtXX, could not find docs on that in xorg) On the server (the pc you want to connect to): Execute 'yast security' * Select Custom Settings, Click Next, Next, Next, * Login Settings: Enable 'Allow Remote Graphical Login' * Click Next, Next, Finish Cheers, Leen