[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup and X forward

[Joacim J]

On 8/24/07, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
> On 8/24/07, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > A bit of stupid question...
> > I have a klient and a server both running Kubuntu Feisty.
> > I have now compiled MythTV on the server for running mythbackend but now
> > I need to run mythtv-setup.
> >
> > I have tried running it over VNC but get:
> >
> > ======================================
> > root at frodo:/home/joacim# /usr/local/mythtv_svn_r14230/bin/mythtv-setup
> > Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> >
> > mythtv-setup: cannot connect to X server : 1.0
> > ======================================
> >
> > How can I run this?
> >
> > Is it possible/better to start mythtv-setup from a regular SSH session
> > and in that case how?
> >
> > PS. I would prefer to solve VNC since I need it for other purposes but
> > it's most important to get it running :) DS
> >
> > Have a nice weekend!
> >
>
> Ignoring the question of why you don't just run this on the console of the
> backend with a monitor and keyboard during setup, from the client, run


Simply becasue the server are in the basement without monitor, keyboard,
mouse....etc. Since the household are dependant on the server (mail, HTTP,
disk shares,..) I don't want to move it around :)

ssh -X server
> mythtv-setup
>
> and you should be good to go
>

I try that....thanks!


-- 
Regards
Joacim
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