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@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-
> discuss-bounces@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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>
>
> 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@ip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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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