[H-GEN] Remote X and dynamic IP addresses
Mark Suter
suter at zwitterion.humbug.org.au
Sat May 20 11:58:18 EDT 2000
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Matthew,
> Can someone tell me if it is possible to accept connections from remote X
> clients over the internet without having to change my local hostname to match
> my ISP's dynamic assigned ppp ip address?
A remote X connection is fundamentally the same as running the
following on you own host - both use TCP connections.
xlogo -display 127.0.0.1:0.0 &
> If so how could I do this?
There are many methods - my preferred one is compressed,
encrypted, strongly authenticated and convenient, as follows.
ssh -C -X 192.168.254.1 xlogo &
The following is a quick-and-dirty proof-of-concept; however, I
would recommend using the above method and running you Xserver
with the "-nolisten tcp" option.
user at 192.168.1.1$ xhost +192.168.1.2
user at 192.168.1.2$ xlogo -display 192.168.1.1:0.0 &
Yours sincerely,
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