Running X programs to access displays on remote machines

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From: arm
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1987 21:34

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I am running on a Sun 3, using release 3.2 of Sun's operating system.
I am having trouble with running a program on one machine to write
to a display on the other. We have X version 10, release 4.

I do the following:
	On one machine, I run xinit to create an X display and that
	works fine. I can start xclocks, xterm windows, GNU emacs, etc.
	Call this machine "mya"

	On the other machine, call it "myb", I try to do the following
	to run the clock remotely:
		% setenv DISPLAY mya:0
		% xclock

	This dies with "XIO: Broken pipe"

	Similarly, I try to use the call in a simple program of:

		Display *disp;
		
		disp = XOpenDisplay("mya:0");

		...

	and the program dies with the same error.

	Has anyone been able to get programs on one Sun machine to
	successfully use the display of another Sun machine. If so,
	how is it done?

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