On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:03, Cole Tuininga wrote: > Dan - A potentially silly question, but that's usually the kind of thing > that trips one up in the first place. 8) > > On your local workstation, what is your display variable set to? If it > is unset, ssh -X 'ing won't work.
I'm aware of that. The DISPLAY variable is set on my workstation. Remember that this box works just fine using ssh and remote X applications on some systems. The key here seems to be that remote X display works fine if the remote system is a workstation that is already running X. If the remote system is configured as a server *without X* (has a text mode console) then there is no DISPLAY variable defined on the remote system in the first place and ssh doesn't seem to define one no matter what switch settings I specify. This is very likely not a Debian specific issue, BTW. My original gripe was that I had no idea how to go about figuring out what package I would need to install on the remote server so that I could successfully do remote X displays. Cole answered this by pointing out the apt-cache search xauth command that I had not previously known about. So far nobody else seems to have figured it out either. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
