Hi there -

I'm unable to display programs from any remote server, despite doing all the obvious (to me) steps...

I'm setting "xhost +" on my local machine (and tried specifying the remote server by name... neither works)

I telnet to the remote machine (necessary because of a firewall), and on the remote machine, I type "setenv <my IP>:0.0" (I've run remote programs on this same server from other machines... so this should work)

However, when I try to run a graphical display program on the remote server I get Error: Can't open display: <my IP>:0.0

To check that my IP is correct, I used ping to another server, which confirms that data is indeed being sent from <my IP>. As a test, I tried displaying programs from other remote servers, and all them exhibit the same error.

My linux system is fairly new... any ideas?? Thank you!

Maybe you just forgot to write, but just in case, I will mention it!

Setenv must be used to set a variable! Here, you didn't type the variable you want to set. So you must do
"setenv DISPLAY <yourIP>:0.0"

As a test, type
"echo $DISPLAY"
when you are logged to this machine and you will see to which hostname
the display is set. If the output corresponds to your IP, well it should work! If not, then set it using setenv (see above).


Otherwise, I don't know why it doesn't work! I am still a newbie also!

Cheers!

Andree