From: Aaron Jackson (jacksonnegril.msrce.howard.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 13:35:43 CST

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Roll up a newspaper and hit yourself in the nose with it. Bad! Bad!
Bad! The only way you really should be "exporting" x displays is via
ssh. If everything is set up properly, you just log into the HP-UX
machine and launch an x app. Everything should just work. This just
involves making sure that both ssh client and server are both setup for
x11 forwarding.

On Nov 11, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Howard wrote:

> Sorry for the stupid question, and I swear I've tried finding an
> answer in the archives.
>
> We have several HP-UX servers that I would like to able to connect to
> using OBSD from my laptop. I need to know what I need to do to enable
> my laptop to accept incoming connections from servers. I tried the
> /etc/X0.hosts solution I found in an archive and that didn't work. I
> log into the servers through telnet and execute:
>
> export DISPLAY=obsdlaptop:0.0
>
> I then try to start an X-enabled app, and I get:
>
> Wind/U X-toolkit Error: wuDisplay: Can't open display
>
> I'm sorry if this has been asked before, and I'm sure it has a hundred
> times, but I guess I'm not doing so good on my searches today.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard

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