D-Man wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:25:58PM -0400, Mike wrote: > | D-Man wrote: > | > > | > I would use ssh instead of rlogin if you can. Also, enable the > | > ForwardX11 option in ssh. If you do this then the display will be > | > setup for you and it will be encrypted as well. This is also the > | > easiest (only?) way to display stuff back on a masq'd box. > | > | How do you do this? I've been trying to do this for some time now with no > | success. Every time I get: > | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ssh -f hal9000 xterm > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hal9000:10.0 > | > | hobbiton is the local machine here, and hal9000 is the remote system I'm > | trying to connect to while wanting the xterm (in this case, anyway) to > | display here on hobbiton. I've got the ForwardX11 option set to true on > | both machines, both in the sshd_config and the ssh_config Is there anything > | else I need to do? > > Other than enabling ForwardX11 in both the server and client (sshd and > ssh) I don't think you need to do anything. What happens if you login > and get a shell, then run xterm?
I get the exact same error as when I try and run xterm as part of the ssh
command.
> The error message shows that DISPLAY was set properly (sshd creates a
> display on the server, 10.0, which it reads from, encrypts, and sends to
> the client who passes it on the local DISPLAY) but that display couldn't
> be opened. I'm wondering if maybe ssh is closing the connection too soon.
Is that something that I can fix by tweaking something somewhere?
> On the Solaris box at school /etc/sshd_config has
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
>
> On my Debian box in ~/.ssh/ssh_config I have in the section for the
> remote machine
> ForwardX11 yes
I've got the same settings on both remote and local systems, respectively.
> On the client side you can use the -X option instead of the config
> file. I like the config file because my options become "persistant".
This might be a kinda dumb question, but does X need to be running on the
remote machine? I've tried having X running on the remote machine, but it
hasn't seemed to make a difference.
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| everything is of great understanding,
'91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the
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