On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:48:59AM -0400, Joseph R. Skoler wrote:
> I'm a novice at this, so I probably don't follow entirely.
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> I've got RedHat 7.2 on a box and I'm ssh'd into that box using SecureCRT.
>
> So, should I run xhost during these sessions?
Given that SecureCRT is a Windows application, the machine in front of
which you're sitting, and to which your keyboard, mouse, and monitor are
connected, is presumably running some version of Windows.
If you want to run, on another machine, applications such as Ethereal
that use X11 for GUI display, and have them pop up windows on your
Windows machine and get input from the keyboard and mouse on your
Windows machine, you will need to be running an X server on your Windows
machine.
If you are running an X server, you will need to configure it to allow
the Red Hat box to connect to that server. I cannot help you there; you
will have to read the documentation for your X server and see how to
configure it to allow particular machines to connect to the X server.
You will also have to arrange that there is no firewall between your
Windows machine and the Red Hat machine that would prevent the Red Hat
machine from connecting to an X server on your Windows machine. I
cannot help you there; I don't know what your network configuration is
like, nor, if I did, could I help you configure firewalls.
If you do not have an X server application running on your Windows
machine, you will have to get one. I don't know all of the X servers
available for Windows; vendors such as Hummingbird:
http://www.hcl.com/
sell them.
