Subject: Re: Root access and X Windows
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2000 - 21:23:40 MDT
At 4:02 PM -0700 9/1/00, Robert Vogt IV wrote:
> 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!
You don't "startx". startx is a script that, among other things,
sets DISPLAY to ":0", which means use the local console. You don't
have permission when you are remote, and when you're logged into the
console, you get what you saw.
In the telnet window, once you've "setenv DISPLAY
remote.mac.name:0.0", type the name of any X aware program (try
"xterm" or "xclock", for example). The window should show up on your
Mac. I once used a demo version of eXodus for a little while a long
time ago, and although I believe you can get it to use a remote
window manager, if I remember right it has one of its own that's
adequate.
>
> -Robert Vogt IV
-- -- Paul Schinder schinder@pobox.com
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