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From:      Sam Carleton <scarleton@miltonstreet.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: networking X Windows w/ ssh
Message-ID:  <38D0306A.5B6AD0A0@miltonstreet.com>
References:  <38CD87B6.1EF2E99B@miltonstreet.com>

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Sam Carleton wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD box and two Linux boxes, all have X configured on
> them.  I would like to be able to run X Windows on the FreeBSD box and
> open a xterm from one of the Linux boxes.  The only catch is that I do
> NOT use rsh, I use ssh2.  I tried this (from page 315 of Complete
> FreeBSD):
>
> ssh linuxbox1 xterm -ls -display freebsd:0
>
> I get this error:
>
> Xlib: connection to "freebsd:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: glob:0
>
> What do I have to change to allow authorization?

I love answering my own questions:)  The answer is run xhost on the
machine you are working from with an argument of the machine you want to
run X apps on:

freebsd#  xhost linuxbox1
freebsd# ssh linuxbox1 xterm -ls -display freebsd:0

It works well!



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