From jason@bic.mni.mcgill.ca Tue Aug 8 13:36:07 2000 Received: from shadow.bic.mni.mcgill.ca (shadow [132.206.178.7]) by bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA05883 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:36:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jason@localhost) by shadow.bic.mni.mcgill.ca (8.8.8/8.8.6) id NAA101565; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:36:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 13:36:05 -0400 From: Jason Lerch To: Kate HANRATTY Subject: Re: Help me Obi Wan In-Reply-To: <200008081727.NAA05387@bottom.bic.mni.mcgill.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: ROr Howdy, > I'm using a linux machine at LDI and telnet-ing to BIC. I want to run > a Vcal application (also an X application) but I get this error > message: Why are you telneting??? Use ssh - this will a) be more secure, and b) take care of the windowing forward. But if you insist on using telnet, here's what to do - for this example I'm assuming you are on a machine called ishouldusessh.mcgill.ca, and are using tcsh as your shell. On the telnet terminal, type: 'setenv DISPLAY ishouldusessh.mcgill.ca:0' - if your computer does not have a DNS entry, use the IP address instead of the name. If this still doesn't work, there might be a problem with your X server permissions. On a local terminal, type 'xhost +' or, for finer grained control, 'xhost +shadow.bic.mni.mcgill.ca' Hope this works Jason