Whoa, whoa... you're going to WAY more trouble than you need! Check your PuTTY client; it needs to be 0.52 or later to do this properly, over ssh.
Under ssh, in the category window, there is a section called tunnels. Check "Enable X11 forwarding" and put in as your X display location "localhost:0" Make sure that Exceed is running (all you need to do is click on Exceed in the menu; nothing else is needed. It'll give you the hummingbird icon, then just a closed item on your taskbar that has the X logo and the word "Exceed" on it. Open your SSH connection via PuTTY. In the ssh window, type something (say, xload&) and enjoy. The localhost variable that you're seeing is saying that you're running correctly on ssh, btw. You are running on the 10th TTY, root screen. That's CORRECT in most cases, for the first ssh (but other values such as localhost:X:0 (where X is some number>10) are also fine). What DOESN'T seem to be right is that you haven't started your X server (Exceed) prior to trying to use it; Exceed needs to be running FIRST, before you start the window, although you could technically connect via PuTTY and start Exceed afterwards, but still before starting your X Application. I've been doing this for AGES. It works, and works well. BTW, I'm including Smoothwall in that assessment; although I use IPCop right now, I've used (and helped develop) both, and that's just a red herring in your case; I'm connected RIGHT now via a setup like I just described to a RH7.3 behind an IPCop 1.2 using PuTTY 0.52 on NT4.0 with Exceed 5.11 (VERY ancient, in terms of Exceed). Bill Ward > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 12:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: X11 Tunneling with PuTTY? > > > List, > > [I apologize for the long email, but I wanted to provide as > much info as > I could.] > > I am trying to configure x-windows on my 7.3 box. Ultimately, I would > like to use ssh (PuTTY) to tunnel communications from my > Linux box to my > Exceed server running on my Windows box. I have never configured > x-windows before, so I am not sure where exactly I am going wrong. > > I am able to connect to the Redhat machine using PuTTY and ssh from an > external network through an open port on my firewall (Smoothwall). I > have enabled X11 forwarding within PuTTY. Exceed has been setup to > receive passive connections from localhost. > > Here is a list of the XFree86 components installed on my system: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# rpm -qa|grep XFree86 > XFree86-S3-3.3.6-44 > XFree86-libs-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-xdm-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-font-utils-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-xfs-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-twm-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-compat-modules-3.3.6-44 > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.1-13.73.3 > XFree86-tools-4.2.1-13.73.3 > > > and the running processes (containing the letter 'x'): > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ps -ef|grep -i x|grep -v $$ > root 688 1 0 Jun14 ? 00:00:00 klogd -x > root 953 1 0 Jun14 ? 00:00:00 > xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/ > xfs 1054 1 0 Jun14 ? 00:00:01 xfs -droppriv -daemon > root 23796 1 0 Jun25 ? 00:00:00 xdm > root 23798 23796 0 Jun25 ? 00:00:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth > /etc/X11/ > > > I'm not sure if the $DISPLAY variable is being set properly. The 10.0 > displayed below is the beginning of my internal LAN IP address. This > might have something to do with the Smoothwall firewall, but I am not > sure. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# echo $DISPLAY > localhost:10.0 > > > The who command does give me the correct IP address that I am > connecting > from: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# who > root pts/0 Jul 2 11:15 (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) > > > But here is the error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# xclock > X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server > shutdown). > > Can anybody tell me where I have gone wrong? > > Thanks in advance, > mike -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
