On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:10:03PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:13:34PM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:39:27AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | > | on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:23:19AM -0400, dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > | > | > | > This isn't really Debian related, but I'm having some trouble with X | > | > over ssh. I am at a win2k box with XWin32 running (& access control | > | > disabled). I use ssh (from cygwin) on that box to login to a FreeBSD | > | > box (our webhosting server). The DISPLAY variable is correctly set, | > | > but whenever I try to run an X app I get : | > | | > | It's not clear from what you've posted that: | > | | > | - You're requesting X forwarding on the client side. | > | - You've allowed X forwarding on the server side. | > | | > | Post your SSH invocation and look at your daemon logs for connection | > | attempts on the remote server. | > | > Ok : | > | > On the client side I have the following in my ~/.ssh/config | > Host redoaksw.com | > User redoaksw | > ForwardX11 yes | > Compression yes | > Protocol 2 | > | > When I login I get : | > | > $ ssh redoaksw.com | > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: | > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: not found | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | This seems to be your problem. From ssh manpage, you may want to set an | appropriate XAuthLocation, as the default isn't working.
It certainly looks like it would be a problem, but ... I just installed Cygwin/XFree86 -- it works great now (except that twm kinda sucks). Last time I tried XFree under cygwin there was no installer and I couldn't get it to work. Now (using XFree as the X server) if I ssh to the FreeBSD box from an xterm, I get that error message however remote X works. I just tried logging in from a cygwin bash shell (in MS-DOS window) and didn't get the xauth error and remote X works (didn't specify any other options than before). If I ssh into the Solaris box from a DOS window (bash) I get the error regardless of whether or not I specify the proper path (/usr/X/bin/xauth). I can't run 'xterm' but I can run 'gvim' (my 2 test cases). Weird! The problem seems to have corrected itself. I don't know whether that is a good thing or a bad thing because if it comes back I don't really know the solution (though I know what to try). Thanks for your assistance. -D
