Subject: Re: Unable to display from X11 apps from Solaris
To: Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/16/2005 12:45:14
Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com> writes:
> I wasn't aware about explicitly setting it up for lisetning on TCP.
> How do I go about doing that ?
Look at the script that starts up your X server. By default, it runs
with flags to stop X from listening on TCP.
I suggest you NOT remove these flags. Instead, use X11 forwarding over
ssh to your solaris box. The nolisten tcp stuff was done because the X
server is a large piece of poorly code that often runs as root. You
minimize your risk if you do X11 forwarding over ssh instead of
opening up the X server directly.
.pm