How to run GUI admin tools remotely?

[Alex Katebi]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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'.


Do you run "lokkit" to be sure?

>
> >
> >      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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