Gaining access to the remote client

Before you can run clients on other machines, you must also be able to access the remote machines. If the client is NFS-mounted on your system, then you can run it locally, and no display access permission is required. If, on the other hand, you want the client to run on the remote machine, you need an account on the remote machine to access the remote client by any of the following methods:

• run the client remotely using the rcmd(TC) command

• log in to your account on the remote machine with telnet(TC) or rlogin(TC), then run the client

To establish user equivalence on the remote host:

1. Log in to the remote host machine.

2. Create a file named .rhosts in your $HOME directory, or if one already exists, open it for editing and add the following line:
   
   localhost login

   localhost is the name of the machine on which you are running the X server. login is your account name on localhost.

   When you have finished, save and exit the file.

3. Make sure that the user ID (UID) of login is the same on both machines. Check the file /etc/passwd on both machines and make sure the UID fields match. You can also use the id(C) command to verify the UIDs on each machine. For information about the structure of the /etc/passwd file, see the passwd(F) manual page.

4. Log out from the remote host.

For more details on the above network commands, see Networking Guide.