[ILUG] Getting X working on UML?

[John Gay]

On Tue 09 Jul 2002 20:39, Ronan Waide wrote:
> On July 9, johngay at eircom.net said:
> > No, I can not telnet port 6000,
>
> Right, at a rough guess you've got some firewalling switched on, such
> as ipchains or iptables. That's assuming that you can't telnet to port
> 6000 when X is running on the Container-Box... switch off your
> firewalling and try again.
>
Now you've completely lost me ;-), yet I confuse easily.

I'm not aware of having set-up any firewalling on my box, it's just a mixed 
bag of Debian from Progeny upto unstable. I have SmoothWall running on a 
seperate box for my dialup, so I just don't worry about security on the local 
side of things.

So, How, specifically, can I enable X to connect? I am guessing that port 
6000 must be opened up somehow? Also, I remember various things about X 
having it's own protection from outside connections, but I don't remember 
where? I've been through this before when my Daughters first PC was a 486 
running just an X server and connecting to my box using X -query 192.168.1.1, 
but that was many years ago.

Thanks again for all the help for the clueless ;)
> Cheers,
> Waider.


Cheers,

	John Gay