Perry,

    The information you gave worked like a charm.  I tried it out
first thing when I got to
work, and it worked just fine.  Thanks a bunch.


cheers,

    mehul


On 7/16/05, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
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> 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 ?
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> Look at the script that starts up your X server. By default, it runs
> with flags to stop X from listening on TCP.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> .pm
>=20


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Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com