Subject: Re: using xauth
To: Ken Nagorski <kenn@pcintelligent.com>
From: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/2001 14:40:40
    Date:        Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:07:59 -0500 (EST)
    From:        Ken Nagorski <kenn@pcintelligent.com>
    Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101291850360.27770-100000@web.pcintelligent.com>

  | 	So if you have some information that could lead me to an answer I
  | would appreciate it...

Copy your .Xauthority file to the remote end (into $HOME there).
Or if already has one that is in use, use the -merge xauth options
to merge the two (which gets a bit messy).

If 192.168.1.3:0 is the linux box's address, then that won't work,
it needs to be your local hostname (X doesn't care where connections
come from, as long as they can quote the magic word - which is what is
in .Xauthority, and why it needs to exist on the remote system).

If you share home directories using NFS this all "just works", if not
the copy (every time your local .Xauthority changes) is needed.

kre