or using something like nomachine nx (http://www.nomachine.com) -- Eero 2013/6/5 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> > On 6/5/2013 6:15 AM, Edsall, William (WJ) wrote: > > In the past we have instructed users to perform 'xhost +' from their > centos desktop, then set the DISPLAY variable on a remote computer to > forward their display back to the desktop. This does not seem to work on > centos 6 - but it did work in centos 5. It works from a vnc session on the > desktop machine, but does not work from the local desktop. > > > > We would typically use a display variable like this: export > DISPLAY=163.198.177.218:0.0 - The target system acts like the request is > being refused: > > Error: Can't open display: 163.198.177.218:0.0 > > > > Have there been any changes in centos 6 which make xhost + behave > differently for the desktop session? > > We've been struggling with this issue now for some time - can't find > the right solution. Any help would be appreciated! > > thats an awful practice. > > instead, connect to the target machine with an SSH client that has > 'x-forwarding' enabled (this is a checkbox in PuTTY or SecureCRT, and is > the -X flag on ssh command line). have your X 'server' running locally > (already running if you're on a unix workstation, I recommend Xming for > MS Windows desktops), and now any X application you launch via that ssh > session will open on your local desktop automagically. > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >