OK, I'll give it a try. I've not used VPNs since my abortive Windows days so I have little trust but it would be good to learn about.
Unfortunately I changed the router to point directly at the laptop and I still can't launch anything graphical so I'm no longer thinking that the root cause is the ssh path but rather something having to do with exporting the display, or something like that. Note that this individual had the same problem and changed his script in the 2nd post. http://ktorrent.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3340 Unfortunately I don't know what to do to fix this problem in any global sense... Thanks, Mark On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jeremy McSpadden <def...@uberpenguin.net> wrote: > Rather than trying to ssh tunnel + X, why not vpn into one of the machines, > that would allow you to be local > and you can then ssh to each machine on the lan from your local. > > -- > Jeremy McSpadden > def...@uberpenguin.net > > > > > On May 22, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'm on a Gentoo box here and ssh'ed into a remote network at my >> folks house. When I log into the Gentoo machine that the router points >> to (my dad's desktop) I have no problem displaying an X app >> (gnome-terminal for instance) running on that machine here on my >> screen. However when I ssh from that machine into another machine on >> the network I am unable to get an X app to display here due to dbus >> and/or X problems: >> >> mark@gandalf ~ $ ssh -X -Y -C laptop >> Password: >> Last login: Sun May 22 03:50:07 PDT 2011 from 192.168.1.2 on pts/0 >> mark@laptop1 ~ $ konsole >> <unknown program name>(4454)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the >> D-Bus session server: "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally >> with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. >> " >> >> <unknown program name>(4453)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. >> >> mark@laptop1 ~ $ systemsettings >> systemsettings(4457): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus >> session server: "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the >> following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. >> " >> >> systemsettings(4456): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. >> >> mark@laptop1 ~ $ su - >> Password: >> laptop1 ~ # rc-update show >> acpid | default >> bootmisc | boot >> checkfs | boot >> checkroot | boot >> clock | boot >> consolefont | boot >> dbus | default >> hald | default >> hostname | boot >> keymaps | boot >> local | default nonetwork >> localmount | boot >> modules | boot >> net.lo | boot >> netmount | default >> ntpd | default >> rmnologin | boot >> sshd | default >> syslog-ng | default >> udev-postmount | default >> urandom | boot >> vixie-cron | default >> xdm | default >> laptop1 ~ # >> >> >> Is there an obvious fix to this? All the machines are ssh >> configured to do X forwarding and when the laptop was here (my mom's >> laptop which I configured for her) I was able to ssh into it and >> display stuff so I assume it's something to do with the machine in the >> middle? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Mark >> >> >> > > > > >
