On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 06:50, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> On Friday 25 July 2003 12:58 am, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 25. Jul, 2003 schwätzte Craig White so:
> > > I have VNC up, running and working just fine but I think that I would
> > > like to play with xwindows without the VNC. I am considering that this
> > > is a trusted network...
> 
> > > 'xterm -display 192.168.2.100'
> > >
> > > and gotten an error (something like, unable to open display)
> >[ssh]
> > This setup will tunnel everything over the encrypted ssh connection.
> 
> But if he does not want the overhead of ssh X11 tunneling, a bit of study will 
> show that X11 displays have names like
> 
> localhost:0
> 
> (i.e., host:screen-number)
> 
> and thus his 'xterm' should have said '192.168.2.100:0' if he truly wished to 
> display it remotely.
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I tried this - still got the error...unable to open display. See my
reply to Hans

Craig