/ ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Chris, | | xhost the remote machine, and try opening up an xterm on the remote | machine with the -display flag. If you don't have xterm on the remote | machine, then you don't have X installed on the remote machine, and | therefore X11 forwarding would be worthless.
You could have xterm on the other machine, but no server.. Or an another X application.. (doesn't sound too likely, but could happen :-) And well he has done that, managed to start an x-application over the network, not through ssh though. /Andy -- The eye of the beholder rests on the beauty!