Running remote programs

Running remote programs

Networking plays a large part in the SCO OpenServer Graphical Environment; it allows you to mount remote filesystems, and it lets you execute X clients on remote machines while interacting with them from your display. The ability to operate programs over a network does, however, introduce the issue of controlling which clients can access a display. For reasons of security, you may not want every user on every system in your network to have permission to use your X server.

There are three tasks you must perform before you can use remote clients on your display:

gain access to the remote client
set up access permissions to your display
run the client

This chapter describes how to do each of these tasks.