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Re: Can't remote X



Hi!

Kent West (westk@heir.acu.edu):
> Now, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I've traveled 150 miles east (from
> Abilene to Ft Worth) to my folks' house, and am using my Debian laptop on
> my Mom's ISP and trying to telnet back to my Abilene Debian box. However,
> I'm getting an error to the effect that the client is not authorized to
> connect to the Xserver. Is this some sort of default setting in Debian
> that I need to turn off somewhere, or is it some sort of barrier in Mom's
> ISP service, or what?

either do an ssh to your box at home - it will set up everything correctly
(and encrypted!!) or do something like "rsh <box.at.home>xauth add `xauth
list $DISPLAY` . 


Rainer

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