How to run GUI admin tools remotely?

[Alex Katebi]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> I have a backup system in my garage on which I have installed xubuntu
> 8.10.  It would be really useful to be able to administer it remotely
> from my desktop system in my house (also xubuntu 8.10), but none of
> the GUI systems/services admin tools will work because of X security.
> I always get something like the following:-
>
>    root at garage:/usr/bin# services-admin
>    X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
>
>    (services-admin:7307): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> localhost:10.0
>

Do you have firewall running on the garage PC? If you don't know then do
"apt-get Install lokkit" then run it and disable firewall. See if that
helped.


>
> Running *user* programs remotely works fine so I have ssh running such
> that X is working OK.  I have also tried all sorts of 'xhosts +'
> commands on the local system such that there should be virtually no X
> authentication at all but I still get the above error.
>
> Can anyone suggest a way to do this?
>
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