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Re: I was too hasty... (Hooray!) Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-serverquestion...
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whoops... before the telnet, issue the following command:
xhost +mybox [i think... or is it xhost +serverroombox?]
try xhost +mybox, i think that's the one that works.
thanks!
joe
tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com wrote:
> Well, I was too hasty... at first, Joseph Cheek's suggestion worked like a
> champ. A second try returned lots of can't open display stuff and don't
> have permission stuff:
> XLib: connection to "mybox:0.0" refused by server
> XLib: Client is not authorized to connect to server
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display
> "mybox:0.0"
>
> Also, startx failed on the "ServerRoomBox" with the errors
> fatal server error:
> No valid modes found
> X Connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> I tried the same stuff on another pair of boxes and I get the same errors
> as paragraph 1 except that startx still works on each machine locally.
> What gives?
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Thomas A Burba/USVISION on 05/28/99
> 02:02 PM ---------------------------
>
> Thomas A Burba
> 05/28/99 09:44 AM
>
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> cc: linux-list@ssc.com
> Subject: Hooray! Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question... (Document
> link not converted)
>
> Hooray! This is the simplest, most elegant solution I've ever heard! Kudos!
> Now, for the clincher...How do I see the "ServerRoomBox" gui desktop from
> "MyBox"? Is it an executable itself? MTIA
> Tom Burba
> U.S. Vision, Inc.
> tburba@usvision.com
> 609-228-1000
>
> plug@lists.nothinbut.net on 05/27/99 05:40:18 PM
>
> To: Thomas A Burba/USVISION, dan@gasboy.com
> cc: linux-list@ssc.com, plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> Subject: Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...
>
> this is what i would do:
> 1. start X on mybox.
> 2. open a command prompt [xterm window]
> 3. telnet to serverroombox, log in
> 4. launch any app you want [from the command line, ie type: netscape
> [ENTER]]
> 5. append an & to the end of the command if you want your shell prompt back
> while the app is running.
> make sense?
> thanks!
> joe
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com <tburba@GLCORPIS01.usvision.com>
> To: dan@gasboy.com <dan@gasboy.com>
> Cc: linux-list@ssc.com <linux-list@ssc.com>; plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 2:28 PM
> Subject: Re: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks to all for your many responses, but they all seem incomplete. The
> >man pages and the How-tos are great, but they obviously are written by
> >folks that are defining the pieces -- not the steps. (Yes, I RTFMs) Its
> >sort of like trying to learn the English language from the dictionary.
> >Enough griping... Anyway, can anyone recommend the _complete_ steps for
> >_one_ of the X-term connectivity methods you'all wrote about -- when we
> >have the following default stuff set up:
> > To be used for this example: two RedHat 5.2 boxes that run X
> >successfully on themselves, can easily telnet (character based) to each
> >other via TCPIP.
> >To not confuse client/server terminology with X client and X server
> >terminology here, I am gonna' call them:
> > "MyBox" where I, as a human want to do the GUI stuff that I can
> >normally do locally at the:
> > "ServerRoomBox" where I have to trudge through the rain to another
> >building and crawl into a refrigerated room to get to it.
> >
> >I would like to start an X session on MyBox that will magically transport
> >me as though I was sitting in the frozen tundra and actually doing stuff
> at
> >the ServerRoomBox itself. I would want to be able to run anything (Xbased)
> >that I would be able to do locally with frozen fingers in the ServerRoom.
> >
> >If there actually is a document that is clear enough to be step-by-step in
> >this regard please let me know.
> > A great man once said, "The _really_ important unix stuff is only
> >taught by word of mouth..."
> >Thanks again in advance...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >dan@gasboy.com on 05/17/99 04:09:53 PM
> >
> >To: linux-list@ssc.com
> >cc: (bcc: Thomas A Burba/USVISION)
> >Subject: !!!Re: [SLL] Stupid X-server question...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:22:37AM -0700, Eric Leung wrote:
> >> There are a couple of ways to set this up.
> >>
> >> One way is to get your x-term linux box to do an xdm login to another
> >> linux box running xdm. There is a way to start X for xdm login but I
> >can't
> >> remember how. If you do this, your display box will behave truly as an
> >> x-terminal. If someone else remembers what the command line switch is,
> >let
> >> me know!
> >>
> >> The other way is to start x in the usual way on your display box, then
> >> telnet to other boxes in an xterm. You can then launch apps with a
> >display
> >> switch to show them on your display box
> >> (ie: coolxapp -display linux1:0.0 &). Alternatively you can set the
> >> DISPLAY environmental variable.
> >Then there's variation 2.1.
> >-- Make sure nothing on any box where you run apps sets the
> > DISPLAY variable.
> >-- Launch your apps from the box you're sitting in front of with
> > the "xon" utility, which will launch any X app but defaults
> > to xterm. Thus
> > xon shindig
> > launches xterm on host "shindig" with DISPLAY pointing back
> > at the host where you run xon.
> > See "man xon" for tricks.
> >I run X apps on three other hosts frequently, a dozen hosts from
> >time to time, all launched from KDE window icons configured to run
> >variations on "xon".
> >--
> >Dan Wilder <dan@gasboy.com>
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