Subject: Re: Root access and X Windows
From: Robert Vogt IV (vogt@arborhost.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 17:02:49 MDT
Mr. Schinder,
> At 11:17 AM -0700 9/1/00, Robert Vogt IV wrote:
> > How do I connect to my YDL machine with eXodus? I've tried the
commands
> >in the docs and other UNIX manuals, and get "permission denied" errors.
>
> What exactly did you try? Did you tell eXodus to allow connections
> from your YDL machine? Did you "setenv DISPLAY" on your YDL machine
> to point to your MacOS box? (setenv DISPLAY hostname.of.mac:0.0)
I tried setting up eXodus to accept a connection on 0.0 from the YDL
machine. Then, I tried telnetting in and setenv'ing and startx'ing, which
didn't work (don't own console). I also tried logging into the console as
root, and doing the same, but it opened X on the local display. Arghh!
-Robert Vogt IV
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