[TriLUG] Fedora and WBEL issue with xhost

[Greg Brown]

WBEL couldn't receive forwarded X because I was having one of my 
"mentally challenged" moments.  FC1 still seems to have this issue, 
though.

Greg

On Thursday, Jan 8, 2004, at 11:35 US/Eastern, Greg Brown wrote:

> X oddities of the day.  I am running WBEL on my desktop at work, Mark 
> is running Fedora Core 1, and we've both seen a most interesting 
> problem.  We were both trying to receive X session from other machines 
> via the old "xhost +" method yet it simply does not work on either 
> WBEL or Fedora if WBEL or FC1 is the machine receiving the X session 
> (i.e. the sending machine says "can't connect... etc" and the X that 
> was sent never appears).  The IP addresses were set correctly from the 
> machine sending the X sessions but it appears that xhost isn't 
> listening, or something like that.
>
> I was more-or-less able to verify this by booting my WBEL box in 
> Knoppix then issuing the xhost + command from Knoppix.  Without making 
> any configuration changes to the source machine I was able to receive 
> an X session.
>
> It should be noted, however, that I was able to push X stuff, in this 
> case xclock, to another desktop (RH 8.0 in this case) so sending X 
> across a network seems to be okay, it's just receiving X that seems to 
> be broken.
>
> Greg
>
>
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