[comp.windows.x] More on getting remote Xservers and clients talking problem

brian@apt.bungi.com (Brian Litzinger) (11/28/90)

In a previous article I explained that I was unable to get any clients
talking with remote Xservers.  My systems were:

    ISC: 386/ix + Thomas Roell X Server
    SUN: Sun 3/160 + Openwindows 2.0
    PC3: 386 pc + Hummingbird eXceedplus

I have now gotten the Sun and the 386pc talking.  However, the 386/ix
continues to refuse to authorize any connections.  After some continuned
futzing I discovered that

ISC> xterm -display "ISC:0"
	fails with the error 'Error: Can't open display'

while the command

ISC>  xterm -display "unix:0"

works as expected.  My guess then is that something is incorrectly configured
such that TCP/IP connections cannot be made to the Thomas Roell X server.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

Thanks in advance.

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