Jeroen Geilman <nospam@notadaptr.nl> wrote in message news:<3fce7241$0$211$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
>
> If you want X to display on a remote system what makes you think that
> using 127.0.0.1 will ever work ?
> This is an IP standard address meaning "this machine only" and is NEVER
> ever visible from any other machine - since it means "me" on any other
> machine as well...

I didn't want to post a real IP address and so I used
the loopback address in my example. I appologize for my
bad example, but the behavior is the same regardless of
IP used.

> Also check with netstat -ltp whether X is listening anywhere at all on
> the machine, and add the appropriate network(s) you want to conenct
> from (to xhost? I don't use this meself, I'm a VNC junkie ;-)

This, I believe, is the crux of my problem: X11 is not listening on port 6000
of my gentoo boxes. With other distibutions, this is default bahavior, but
apparently it's not default for X running on gentoo. What do I need to do
to get X11 listening on port 6000?

--Dan