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.
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.
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.
I would like to be able to go back to the simpler, less secure way. Is this possible?
Thanks.
I haven't looked at it in detail yet, it may be some security feature, but "export DISPLAY=<remotehost>:0.0" followed by the command used to work. I have DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes" and DISPLAYMANAGER_ROOT_LOGIN_REMOTE="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. You can of course get a complete remote desktop locally by e.g "X :2 -query <hostname> vt09&" - I do this on a Linux box when I want to do some work on a remote box running Linux or Solaris. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====