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From: kochhar@endor.harvard.edu (Sandeep Kochhar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Server not authorized. Novice question
Message-ID: <789@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 88 19:17:34 GMT
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Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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In article <783@m10ux.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
>
>Here's a novice X question:
>
>  whenever I try to start a client on a remote machine (e.g.
>my server is running on one sun, I rlogin to another and try
>to run emacs or xclock or xeyes), I get an error message of 
>the form:
>
>   Server is not authorized to connect to host
>
>my DISPLAY is set correctly.  I suspect that some system-ish
>protection or something is wrong (maybe with xterm?  I dunno).  
>Does anyone have any advice?

It seems that you need to use the "xhost" command.  The simple
fix would be for you to type "xhost +<hostname>", where
<hostname> is the name of the machine from which you are trying
to connect, or "xhost +" to allow anyone to connect;  however,
to find out how to avoid doing this every time, you should
look at the xhost man page.


thanks.
sandeep kochhar
email: kochhar@harvard.harvard.edu