i have two computers operating on a local net (a netgear
wireless router) one my main server with all my files, and
the other a satellite, both running FC2.  if i ssh into
the server from the satellite, using my standard user
account, and then try to launch an X application, i get
the following message:

X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

thinking maybe my .Xauthority wasn't set up right, i read
the man pages, used mkxauth -c to make it right, and set
up .rhosts, all on both machines in my home directory.  in
addition i set up hosts.equiv as root on both machines -
still no good.

then, thinking maybe my firewall was limiting things, i
took a look at that using system-config-security as root -
and by gosh, that launched the X gui with no problem.
hmmmm.

it seems that as root, i can launch an X application back to
the satellite with no .Xauthority at all.

as you can see, i'm a linux user, not a sys admin, and haven't
a clue as to what controls this.  any suggestions would be
much appreciated.

tia,
dan

j. daniel moylan
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brookline, ma 02446-6202
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