On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 09:14, Dave Basener wrote: > Bret, > Just to amplify a bit on Mike's response below, you can indeed run X > over SSH, but make sure you do the following: > > 1) On the remote host (the one that would be accepting your ssh > connection and then displaying an X application back to your local > desktop) make sure you have "X11Forwarding yes" in your sshd_config file > (on RH Linux this is /etc/ssh/sshd_config). It is also a good idea to > set "X11DisplayOffset 10". This controls the base display number (in > this case "10") that will be automatically used by ssh. > > 2) When running ssh on your local system to connect to the remote > (above), use "ssh -X <rest of args>" . This tells ssh and sshd that you > will be tunneling X packets and that the daemon should set your DISPLAY > variable. >
THanks for the explaination. I do indeed run X over ssh all the time but was trying to help the OP do what he was trying to do since at the time I wrote the note no one had responded. I ended up learning abit for my efforts and that is a good thing :) Thanks again Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
