On the target box, you need to do xhost +serverbox Although on most recent distributions of X, TCP access is disabled by default, so you either have to restart X and make sure it is listening to TCP connections, or tunnel everything through ssh then you need not worry about DISPLAYs and xhost and such. ~J Ryan O'Rourke wrote: > I'm trying to run a RealPlayer-based application on a remote host from > PuTTY in Windows. It's an application that will capture Real audio as > it plays through RealPlayer so it needs to actually open the > application to do it. I don't see a way for RealPlayer to run without > X so I'm trying to set the $DISPLAY variable to open RealPlayer on my > Linux host. There must be something wrong though because if I do: > DISPLAY=hostname:0 realcap [arguments] [options] [URL] & > I get an error message about not being able to open the display. > > What do I need to do in order for my command to open RealPlayer on the > remote Linux box instead of trying to open it on my local Windows box? > > TIA. > > -- Ryan > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list