Jon Schewe wrote: > > Got a problem that I'm hoping someone here can solve. > > First some background. I've got 3 machines here, disk, sun3-50 and eggplant. > disk is my fileserver/boot server, eggplant is a workstation that has all my X > applications and sun3-50 is a sun 3/50 that netboots off of disk. > > Now here's the problem. I have an xterm open on sun3-50, the prompt is on > disk since that's where it booted from. I ssh to eggplant then run gnuclient > so that I can connect to the XEmacs session running on eggplant. I promptly > get an error that the connection was rejected due to an authentication error > and my XEmacs session on eggplant get terminated too. My display variable is > set correctly on all machines and I can start up rxvt just fine from > eggplant. This is only with XEmacs. Any ideas? Well, I don't know boo-ya about ssh, but I've had similar problems with network X sessions. First, since you don't explicitly mention it, did you add eggplant to sun3-50's allowed xhosts? The way I like to do it is to add, for your example, 'xhost +eggplant.mtu.net' to your .xinitrc on sun3-50. If you don't do this, you'll get connection failures. Also, your sentence seems to be saying that you're diverting a /running/ XEmacs session to sun3-50, which I have never tried; if instead you're starting an XEMacs session on eggplant and it's dying right away, this would be explained by the lack of X permissions, as XEMacs doesn't like not being able to init a display. :) Another thing you might try is making sure that the user doing all this has a valid .Xauthority (or is it .XAuthority? Damn case-sensitive filesystems...) -- the only way I know of to do this is to see if the user has one. If not, start an X session locally. If they do, delete it and start an X session locally, as it may have become corrupt (this has happened to me; the error messages contain the string 'XMIT-MAGIC-COOKIE'.) That's all the advice I can give. 'Tain't much, I know, but hopefully it's helpful. -- <------------------------Chris H. Bidler, Internet Helper Monkey-------------------------> The drive banged 3-4 times the head against its endrun, maybe to BE SURE it was there ... "*Beep TAka TAka TAka TAka -whirr- ..." -- simulated persona = "The Cube", node #251, of http://www.forum2000.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org