On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, savantsaro wrote: > box 1: Windows 2000 Server > cygwin > > box 2: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) > > cygwin was installed with openssh, today, from the latest setup.exe.
FYI, it's probably a good idea to review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> before sending bug reports... Reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README would also help. > Basic scenario: > startxwin.bat -> X icon appears in taskbar, terminal opens > ssh -Y -l username box2name -> ssh connection is established and works fine > emacs & -> [1]+ Stopped emacs > > Troubleshooting already done: > I have also tried with putty, with X11 tunneling enabled, and tried > running other apps (specifically a java swing application, which does > not stop but simply does nothing on box 1) > The DISPLAY environment variable was not set. There's your problem. You should set it before running "ssh -Y". For example try either export DISPLAY=:0.0; ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- both should work. > I tried setting it to "localhost:0.0" and to ":0", with no effect. > The config files for ssh (~/.ssh/config and /etc/ssh_config) did not > exist. Ah. Did you run /bin/ssh-user-config? > I created the first one with a single line (ForwardX11 yes) with no > change. > > Please help. I know cygwin is a good, working program, and I'm an > intelligent computer guy - why won't it work for me? Maybe Cygwin just doesn't like you? ;-) You know, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw