'xhost +' does not work in warty

[Wouter Eerdekens]

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:45:06 +0100, Johannes Behr
<johannes.behr at igd.fhg.de> wrote:
 
> If you allow remote accesses (with 'xhost +')
> everyone should be able to connect the XServer
> just giving the right server:display.screen
> (e.g. xterm -display pc1228:0.0)
> But not in ubuntu/warty :(

Sure it does, just not by default. Your local X server is started with
the option
-nolisten tcp, as stated in an earlier post. Reconfigure your X server
to run without this, and you xhost+ method does work. I think you can
reconfigure it
with gdmsetup or by editing /etc/gdm/gdm.conf. 

Cheers,
Wouter

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