Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu From: haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu (hao zhou) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: xlock -remote problem Message-ID: <44230@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Date: 3 Nov 90 18:21:23 GMT Sender: news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU Organization: SUNY Buffalo Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu When I ran xlock2.0 (ftp'ed from expo.lcs.mit.edu) remotely from a sun workstation as follows: rsh remote_host xlock -display $DISPLAY -remote the screen became black and was restored back immediately with the following error message: X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied ) Major opcode of failed request: 109 (X_ChangeHosts) Minor opcode of failed request: 0 Resource id in failed request: 0xd00002 Serial number of failed request: 93 Current serial number in output stream: 99 Then I tried rlogin to the remote host and did as follows xlock -remote I got the same kind of error messages. My DISPLAY is ok, xhost is fine and .rhosts is fine too. What't the problem? Does it have to do with the local XResources? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks ... Hao -- Internet:haozhou@acsu.buffalo.edu BITNET:haozhou%acsu.buffalo.edu@UBVM.BITNET UUCP: rutgers!ub!haozhou