[CLUE-Tech] quick and dirty way to let a solaris app run on linux xserver?

[Lynn Danielson]

Brandon N wrote:
> --- Dave Price <davep at kinaole.org> wrote:
>> I am trying to get an xclient program on a solaris system to display
>> on my linux X server.
>>
>>I have tried xhost, but the solaris box still whines about not being
>>able to open my display, even tho it can ping it.
> 
 >
> You may have already tried all of this, but here is how it should work:
> 
> on linux X server:
> $ xhost +
> 
> on Sun box
> $ DISPLAY=<value of above DISPLAY>
> $ export DISPLAY    
> $ xapp

That should work.  I was stunned at Dave's follow up! ...

Dave Price  wrote:
 > SOLVED: ... it was suggested that debian does not listen for tcp
 > connection to X by default
> 
> grep -nri "nolisten tcp" in /etc/X11 revealed the option on two files.
> Removing that and kicking X gently in the butt got it working.

I assume that this is done for security reasons.  But setting X up
this way breaks what all of us expect to simply work.  Does anyone
know if there is a security option thats sets this up during Debian
installation?  To set up X this way by default in a "standard" Linux
distribution seems asinine to me.

Lynn