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hamzehscatterload
08-14-2006, 05:57 PM
Hi,

I requested SSH access to my account recently. I noticed that I'm unable to use my bluehost account to do remote display access, ie. to use a remote X server that's running on my home machine. This would actually be very useful to me coz I prefer to use emacs to edit text files and even run shell commands from.

I'm not used to running emacs inside the terminal window. It's giving me a headache (home key doesn't work properly, Ctrl+home, menu stuff, etc.).

Anybody ever do this on their bluehost account? I contacted the support guys and they offered to add the IP address of my home machine to a whitelist, but they said they added it to a whitelist for the mysql server running on the bluehost box. That didn't fix it.

Anybody know what I'm talking about? I'm sorry if I didn't explain it well.

This is what I'm trying to do. The first line is the command I'm using, the rest is the error message that I get:


user@bluehostmachine [~]# emacs -d aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:0.0&

user@bluehostmachine [~]# emacs: Cannot connect to X server aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd:0.0.
Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use `-d'.
Also use the `xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit
connections from your machine.


Where aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the ip address of my computer where I'm running the X server.

Basil
08-14-2006, 06:12 PM
Can you access your home server from an external computer?

hamzehscatterload
08-14-2006, 06:19 PM
Can you access your home server from an external computer?

Yeah I tried that already. I verified that my X server is setup to allow any host to connect to it before trying this, and I tested it with a linux machine from work.

Did you ever try to use a remote X server from your bluehost machine and did it work?

BTW, I tried to enable X11 forwarding in my SSH client (both SecureCRT and PuTTY) and when I login it pops a message that says "This server doesn't support X11 forwarding". I wonder if X11 forwarding is turned off by default or on purpose on the bluehost box. I thought it was usually on by default in most linux installations.

Thanks.