[SunHELP] more linuxisms

[Bruce Pullig]

Put this line in your .dtprofile in the local user's home directory.
/usr/openwin/bin/xhost + <machine name(s)> You can also put it in their
.cshrc .login, or .profile


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  Bruce Pullig, CSA, CNA, MCPS
  Senior Systems Administrator
  GeoQuest DMC
  5444 Westheimer, Suite 800
  Houston, TX 77056
  (713) 350-4217 
  bpullig at houston.geoquest.slb.com
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David Bishop wrote:
> 
> On a closely related note to my previous email, I'm having problems logging
> into my linux box at all from my sunstations.  I have setup gdm to offer
> logins remotely, and have successfully used eXceed from an NT machine to
> connect to my linux box, and it worked great.  However, when sitting at the
> dtlogin prompt of my sun machine, and selecting "options->remote login" and
> putting in the hostname, it "twitches", and then starts a blank X server with
> no terminal/windowmanager/anything, just the checkered background of plain X.
>  This is *before* it gets to the username/password login prompt of the linux
> box.  So, I went to my logs on that machine, and it is spewing this:
> 
> Xlib: connection to "pedh5.micron.com:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> 
> over and over again.  So, it appears that the sun workstation doesn't allow
> my linux box to display it's chooser program in it's X server.  Fair enough,
> but it works when going from one sunbox to another.  I.e., I can remote login
> to another ss20 all day long, and it allows *it* to display.  So, obviously,
> somewhere or other xhost or an equivilant is setting it so that nobody but
> the other sunboxes can display their chooser on each other (if that makes
> sense).  But sense I inherited these machines, I have no idea where that is
> :-)  I've tried going to /etc/dt and greping through all the files for xhost,
> pedh (the prefix for our sun boxes), or 137 (the prefix of our ip's), but no
> joy.  The same in /usr/dt/config.  Is there another place something like that
> can be set?  What am I missing that's holding me up?  Help!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> D.A.Bishop
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