I offer another way to do it. If you're attempting to use your windows computer to view an X environment on a linux box, you can use VNC instead. And it's free. I've written a HOWTO for setting this up, including tunneling over ssh using PuTTY here:
http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/putty-tunnel.html Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 11:33 AM 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
