Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] GUI in Linux

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Scott Lowrey wrote:
>
> > One caveat here: some Linux systems have port 6000 disabled by 
> > default.  If you're used to running X apps in "the usual way", you'll 
> > go nuts wondering why nothing (including xhost) works.
>
>
> If you're running the app locally, rather than running it on some other 
> machine with DISPLAY set to point to your desktop machine, if DISPLAY is 
> set to ":0.0" that shouldn't matter, as it'll be connecting via a 
> UNIX-domain socket rather than via a TCP connection to port 6000.
>
> If you *are* running it on some other machine, of course, your machine's 
> X server has to be listening on port 6000 - and you might have to use 
> "xhost" locally to get it to accept connections from the remote machine 
> in question.
>
> If you're running Ethereal locally as root (to enable capturing on 
> platforms where that's required), you might also have to use "xhost" to 
> allow connections from root.

Why not just run it remotely via ssh?  Saves a lot of problems.