What is the variable DISPLAY set to on the unix-machines?? What is the variable DISPLAY set to in the terminal you do the ssh -X command from?
/Andy / John Burkhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?), > | I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine to access a remote Unix | system. My machine is behind a router, therefore when i run ssh with the | parameters : ssh -X -l username hostname | I get the follwing error: | Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > | Subsequently the remote machine gives me a "can't open display" error | whenever I try to run anything like xmgr or even and xterm on the remote | machine. Do I need to use port forwarding? If so, how do I do this? The | router has a public IP address, but the IP on my computer is invisible to | the WAN as far as I can tell. > | Thank you, john > > > -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!