[comp.windows.x] Running X across a network

kobetitsch@picker.picker.com (harry kobetitsch) (04/17/91)

I am trying to do the following:

On my network I have SCO ODT on one node and ISC with X11R3/Motif
on another node. On the ISC node I set the DISPLAY variable to
"(the hostname of SCO ODT):0" and tried to run xinit on ISC. 

I expected to get a display on the SCO ODT node but that was not
the case. Instead I get a display on the ISC node that crashed.

Can anybody help me with this? Did I forget to do something ?

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Harry Kobetitsch (216)-473-2624
Picker International, Inc.
595 Miner Rd, Highland Heights, OH  44143
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T441613@TWNCU865.BITNET (04/20/91)

>On my network I have SCO ODT on one node and ISC with X11R3/Motif
>on another node. On the ISC node I set the DISPLAY variable to
>"(the hostname of SCO ODT):0" and tried to run xinit on ISC.
>
>I expected to get a display on the SCO ODT node but that was not
>the case. Instead I get a display on the ISC node that crashed.

If you want to run a program in the remote node and display in the
local node, you should do the following.
        In the local node
                LOCAL_NODE% xhost +REMOTE_NODE
        In the remote node
                REMOTE_NODE% xeyes -d LOCAL_NODE:0

If you want to run a program in the local node and display in the
remote node, you should do the following.
        In the remote node
                REMOTE_NODE% xhost +LOCAL_NODE
        In the local node
                LOCAL_NODE% xeyes -d REMOTE_NODE:0

Michael Lin
National Central University, Taiwan