Starting an X11 client on another machine, without ssh

Bill Freeman f at ke1g.mv.com
Wed Mar 24 10:54:59 EDT 2010


> Googling for "X without ssh" or "X Forwarding without ssh" brings up 
> thousands of helpful tutorials on X Forwarding using SSH :)
> 
> Here's an alternative suggestion, not as good as xon, but relatively simple:
> 
>
http://superuser.com/questions/49240/get-remote-x-display-working-in-linux-without-ssh-tunneling
> 
> -- 
> Ted Roche

Nifty.  That would have saved me a bunch of fooling around.

I think that he's fooling himself about the magic cookie stuff.  Once he
did "xhost +ceres" then any client on ceres could connect.

Bill



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