Running X on a virtual dedicated server

[Jon M. Hanson]

It's "xhost +". There's a space between xhost and the +. This allows  
all clients to connect to your X server. That command will allow any  
client connections to your server. You really shouldn't do that but  
when trying to get anything to show up on your X server. For further  
details see "man xhost".
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On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:

> Ok, I have been using Linux for a long while, but in comparison to  
> my windows boxes most of my Linux stuff just works.  On that note I  
> am much less experienced then many others on this list.  Could you  
> please explain xhost+ to me?
>
> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug- 
> discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Jon M. Hanson
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:13 PM
> To: Main PLUG discussion list
> Subject: Re: Running X on a virtual dedicated server
>
> If you're using ssh on that system then restarting sshd on that  
> system will have no effect. The sshd demon accepts connections to  
> your machine and has nothing to do with outgoing connections.  
> That's why you can restart sshd and it didn't affect your outgoing  
> ssh connection.
>
> You might also need to do an "xhost +" to allow your X server to  
> accept connections before your try to open up any X programs.
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> Jon M. Hanson (N7ZVJ)
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>
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>
>> True, this is what I want, however I edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config and
>> uncommented and changed the lines ForwardX11 yes and  
>> ForwardX11Trusted
>> yes.  I pondered why PasswordAuthentication yes was commented but
>> ignored this saved the file and restarted sshd.  Logged out and  
>> logged
>> back in.  I also wounded why I could restart sshd without being  
>> logged
>> out, but again ignored this.  However when I try to launch  
>> konqueror I
>> get "cannot connect to X server"  That is when I started trying to  
>> start
>> X
>>
>> I am connecting using ssh -X user at ip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf  
>> Of Ted
>> Gould
>> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:49 PM
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list
>> Cc: Arizona State University Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: Running X on a virtual dedicated server
>>
>> On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 18:37 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
>>> As many of you know, I like my GUI tools.  And I just purchased a
>>> virtual server from GoDaddy, but when I try to run an X app I get  
>>> the
>>> generic error of cannot connect to X server.  If I look at ps -A  
>>> I see
>>
>>> xinted running.  If I try to startx I get
>>> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.5195 (or some
>>> randum number)
>>> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH
>>
>> I think you're confused at what you want.  You don't want X  
>> running on
>> that computer, you want the programs to display on your X server  
>> running
>> on your machine.  Try connecting like this:
>>
>> ssh -X -Y -C myhost.com
>>
>> That opens up X tunneling, sets the forward file, and does a little
>> compression for you too.
>>
>> Some SSH servers aren't set up to support X tunneling by default, you
>> may need to enable it in /etc/ssh/ssh_config
>>
>> --Ted
>>
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