<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Chris G <<a href="mailto:cl@isbd.net">cl@isbd.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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@garage:/usr/bin# services-admin X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. (services-admin:7307): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 </blockquote><div> 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. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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? -- Chris Green -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>