On 14/6/02 8:46 PM, "Nathan Callahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What you are doing will work... But it's not actually forwarding the X > connection over ssh. Which, as long as you're not trying to be secure and > encrypted about it is fine and dandy. At the moment it's just a "normal" X > connection. > > "xhost +" should not be necessary, as the connection should be coming from > the local end of the ssh session (as I understand it). > > It's possible that you are using the ssh client that comes with Mac OS X, > which does not have X11 forwarding built into is > > which ssh > > should return "/sw/usr/bin/ssh" not "/usr/bin/ssh" That would be why... :) I don't have the Fink version of SSH installed. > Also, when I said localhost... I meant localhost :) but the ip of the machine > should work too, not sure though... untested. > > You should be able to start xclients from the terminal that you have ssh'ed > from on the local machine, otherwise the DISPLAY is incorrectly set. So, a > plain old: > > ssh -C -X linuxhost.mydomain > > from XTerm should also work. When you get there: > > echo $DISPLAY > should be something like "linuxhost.mydomain:10" and definitely should have a > value, otherwise X11 forwarding isn't happening. > > But hey... It's working for you now... So I'll pull my head in :) > > Regards, > Nathan Thanks a lot! _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
