[lug] My remote X apps post

[Gary Hodges]

Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> On 12-18 12:00, Gary Hodges wrote:
> > OK, I determined it is related to the firewall.  I turned off ipchains
> > and ghostview popped right up.  Now I'll go try and figure out what
> > settings I need to fiddle with.
>
> You are doing this over the wider, capital-I, Internet? Sounds like a big
> security risk to me. Can't you just use ssh with X11 forwarding on?

Yes, I can.  Thanks for all the link pointers.  I was just getting immersed and
starting to wonder what I had gotten myself into when I tried a ssh session and
all worked fine.

Thanks,
Gary