How to run GUI admin tools remotely?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40:35AM -0500, Alex Katebi wrote:
>    On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Chris G <[1]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.
> 
No firewall, all of the LAN is behind a router which provides the
firewall against the 'outside'.
> 
>      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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