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- From: arthur@sgi.com (Arthur Evans)
- Subject: Re: problems with remote display
- Message-ID: <tjrmts8@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- Reply-To: arthur@chiba (Arthur Evans)
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <34578@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 23:22:35 GMT
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- In article <34578@adm.brl.mil> ubjta56@ucl.ac.uk (Dr P Day) writes:
- >
- >Hi,
- > when I do the weekly backups on our two machines I normally rlogin to
- >one machine (the one not one my desk) su to root and then run vadmin.
- >
- > This week when I tried to run vadmin I got the folowing message:
- >
- > Xlib: connection to "dublin:0.0" refused by server
- > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
- > Error: Can't Open display
- >
- >What causes this ? How do I 'authorize' the connection?
-
- I haven't seen an answer to this posted. The command
- "xhost" can be used to control access to the X server.
- "xhost +" will turn off access control (that is, allow
- any machine to connect to your X server). This should
- fix your problem.
-
- arthur
-
-