[CentOS] Cannot access printing setup using VNC

Steve Bergman
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:33:42 -0000

Fajar Priyanto wrote:

>Hi all,
>I try to VNC to my Centos4.2 located in remote branch office.
>When I try to open System Setting > Printing. It ask for root password as
>usual, I enter the password, OK, then nothing. The printing setting menu
>doesn't show.
>
>Is there any setting I must do to be able to run printing setting using VNC?
>Thanks.
>
>
 From a terminal session in the remote session, do  an:

$ xhost YourIpAddress

Otherwise, connections to the Xserver will silently fail.

-Steve