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jacksu@sara.atmos.uiuc.edu (Jack Su) writes:


>Hi sun / X experts:

>I've just upgraded our SUN SPARCs to OS 4.1.1.  When I run
>openwindow, I can not have X-clients display in OpenWindow.
>I've tried this with other suns running openwindow, X11R4 on HP 9000,
>and X11R4 on a Cray.  There must be something SIMPLE that I stupidly am
>forgetting.  I keep getting the following message>

>Xlib:  connection to "sara.atmos.uiuc.edu:0.0" refused by server
>Xlib:  Client is not authorized to connect to server

I was confused by this for a while.

	1> You must do an xhost +machine
	for each machine that you want to run clients on.
	2> You must run the xhost as the user that is logged in on the
	console (I do it from within .xinit)
	3> I think the user-id running the clients must be the same as the
	user-id logged in on the console of the workstation.

I think that 2 and 3 are only needed if you are running with the authority
checking.

I might add that I also think that this is one hell of a pain, esp when you
think that NeWS has its own set of authority stuff as well :-)

ant

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Hi all,

I would like to thank everyone that replied.  The solution is indeed simple,
and I was an idiot.  By default, OpenWindow only enables xhost for localhost.
A quick check of the startup script for our old X11R4/XView shows 'xhost +'.  
As many of you have suggested this indeed solved the problem.  The xhost 
command may also be placed in the user's .openwin-init.  Alternatively a 
host access table may be created in /etc/X*.hosts where * is the display number.

Thanks to everyone that responded.

Jack Su