Did you give the remote host permission with xhost?  As in:

  xhost +the.host.name

You want to be sure not to leave a space between the '+' and host name;
just "xhost +" means everyone's welcome, probably not a good idea.

Steve
proudhawk@uswestmail.net wrote:
> 
> ok,
> I've run into this enough and found virtually nothing in either the howto's or online documentation.
> 
> it appears to be a permissions problem with teh X server.
> 
> even though I have X forwarding through ssh tunnle turned on, the X server locally will not accept remote connections from anywhere through ssh (unless they originate from a "root" account).
> 
> This problem did not exist with the version of X under 3.3.5 but cropped up with version 4.x.
> 
> any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> one of the errors I get is:
> GTK Error: Connection to <hostname>:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> I would like to be able to use X apps without having to resort to Xvnc on the remote system
> (why tie up more cpu cycles and bandwidth?).
> 
> HEEEEELP!
> 
> Techomage Hawke
> 
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