[Macpartners] remote X display on 10.3?

Alex T Prengel alexp at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 13 17:42:17 EST 2003


Hi folks,

I just upgraded my G4 PowerBook to 10.3 and am running into a remote
display issue with X11. I can get Kerberos tickets with kinit; I xhost
to my Athena workstation then telnet to it (with the -f or -F switch);
it logs me in (though there is an unusually long pause at the stage
where it runs "standard startup activities"), but it's unable to open
the X display and I can't run X apps that display on the PowerBook.

I ran into something like this when I installed the new Fedora Linux
release- they added additional firewall rules that disable the X port
by default unless you edit a special config file; does anyone know if
Apple is doing this? (or just how to make remote X display work with
telnet on 10.3).

ssh doesn't seem to have this problem but I'd like to be able to use telnet
too.

                                             Thanks,

                                                   Alex


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