RE: [Ethereal-users] Brand new

["Joseph R. Skoler" <joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?  Is there a better way?

(Please disregard the 172.166.226.117 thing -- it was just the box I was on
for the weekend, also SSH'd in.)

BTW, I continue to get the msg:   "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:"
whether I'm logged in as root or as myself.

Thanks!

Joseph R. Skoler
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CompuHelp Technologies, Inc.
Computer Consulting, Network Solutions, Integration, Support
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 8:45 PM
> To: Joseph R. Skoler
> Cc: Rick Farina; ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Brand new
>
>
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 08:36:20PM -0400, Joseph R. Skoler wrote:
> > Now I get the msg:
> >
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: 172.166.226.117:0.0
>
> You might need to use "xhost" (or some GUI equivalent, if it exists on
> whatever desktop you're using) on 172.166.226.117 to allow the machine
> on which you're running Ethereal to connect to the X server on
> 172.166.226.117.
>
> If you've done that, then, if you're running Ethereal as root, you may
> also need to use "xhost" (or a GUI equivalent) to allow root on the
> machine on which you're running Ethereal to connect to the X server.
>
> (I'm assuming here that
>
> 	1) you have an X server running on 172.166.226.117
>
> and
>
> 	2) there's no firewall preventing the machine on which you're
> 	   running Ethereal from connecting to that X server.
>
> If either of *those* are true, you're out of luck, unless there's some
> form of X tunneling available to you.  I have the impression
> that there
> might be a way of tunning X over SSH, but I know nothing about it.)
>