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Xnest network issues
Authored by: gagern on Jun 09, '10 04:39:18AM

Took me some time to get this working on my setup. Today I finally managed to get it operational, so here are two more useful pieces of information on how to deal with some issues.

Make sure to allow Xnest in the firewall settings in the security panel of your system settings. Seems automatic firewall settings don't allow incoming connections to Xnest, causing a lot of TCP SYN packets to a listening socket but still no connection.

If you have multiple network connections (i.e. multihomed setup), give -from IP on the Xnest command line in order to set the IP address the remote machine (X client) shall use to talk to your machine (X server). Useful for VPN setups.



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Xnest network issues
Authored by: jc1350 on Jul 22, '10 12:52:42PM

Thank your for this tip. I have been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why Xnest stopped working and all I got was a black screen. Using the last part of your tip (multihomed systems use -from) was the fix. I would never have thought of that.



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