--- "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:49:02 -0800 (PST) > begin Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > [snip] > > > > All of that checks out. I made sure to set that stuff up beforehand. > > > Still, no go. I ssh from boxA to boxB, run whatever, and it appears > on > > the monitor for boxB. > > When you log in (from A to B), do you see: > > Warning: Remote host denied X11 forwarding. > (this means X connections are denied, just like it says) > > if not, while loggd in remotely on HostB, when you enter echo > $DISPLAY, do > you see: HostB:10.0 > > or do you see something else?
I see nothing, as if $DISPLAY has no set value. > > But wait, this only gets weirder. > > If i reboot boxA, type "xhost +", then SSH into boxB, and try to > run, > > say, an xterm, it appears on boxB (bad). If I log out, run "xhost > +" > > again (on boxA), and then SSH back into boxB (from boxA), I can run > an X > > app just fine, and it appears on boxA. > > Why should I need to run 'xhost +' twice? I know there has to be > > something i'm missing here (beyond the inherent security issues > > involved). > > I'd bet my bottom $ the X session isn't tunneled on SSH. You should > not > have to run xhost + on the local box (or the remote one) to have an X > session from the remote box show up locally. Yea, i know, but i can't figure out why its not working. All files (ssh_config & sshd_config) on both boxes have X11Forwarding set to YES. > > [snip] > > > > Ahhh...ok. Yea, i was aware of that command, i just never connected > the > > description with the name. OK, so what would you recommend? > > > > The thing that I don't understand is why i'm having so many > problems. > > When i run through this routine on any box at work, it works, no > > xhost'ing needed. > > > > thanks for your help. > > > What version of SSH are you running on each system? I rarely use X11 > forwarding, so I'm fishing a little here, but I've heard of problems > with > openssh-3.x and X forwarding. > > Who packaged/built the RPM/deb/tarball you're using? On boxB, its the newest stable version of OpenSSH, built from SRPM downloaded from the openssh FTP server. On boxA its the latest 'blessed' version from Caldera, 2.9 i think. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
