Re: Using remote apps on local X server
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:17:25 -0500 Bob Smither [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Aloha, Why not use vnc-server and vnc-client. For instance, you could install tightvncserver (- virtual network computing server software) on your server machine (working machine) and just start it as a reguler user with $ vncserver. You install vncviewer on the client and connect to the server with vncviewer machine_IP_or_DNS_name:display_nu, ie vncviewer my_server:1 . -- Infinite Love Is The Only Truth, Everything Else Is Illusion! PGP:0xE6359031 ICQ:32812963 MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Using remote apps on local X server
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:35:53 -0500 Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob Smither wrote: This must be a FAQ, but I could not stumble upon a solution. With other Linux boxen, I can ssh -X into them, then run X apps on the remote with local display. On a newly installed Sarge Debian box, doing this results in the following error: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Thanks! You will need to set the DISPLAY variable and export it. I don't know what you set it to, but I do know you will have to export DISPLAY serverx: X,XX here = display and serverx=name or ipaddress of the desired server (such as 192.168.2.4: 0,0. I have just exhausted my knowledge of the matter as I don't play with exporting displays, but I hope that helps, and at the very least, get you on the right track. ssh with X-forwarding should take care of this automatically. As Paul Dwerryhouse suggested, the OP should check that 'X11Forwarding yes' is in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the remote side. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using remote apps on local X server
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:35:53PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Bob Smither wrote: This must be a FAQ, but I could not stumble upon a solution. With other Linux boxen, I can ssh -X into them, then run X apps on the remote with local display. On a newly installed Sarge Debian box, doing this results in the following error: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Thanks! You will need to set the DISPLAY variable and export it. I don't know what you set it to, but I do know you will have to export DISPLAY serverx: X,XX here = display and serverx=name or ipaddress of the desired server (such as 192.168.2.4: 0,0. I have just exhausted my knowledge of the matter as I don't play with exporting displays, but I hope that helps, and at the very least, get you on the right track. This would be correct for traditional X sessions without ssh, but I don't think you quite understand the mechanics of port forwarding with ssh as specified by the original poster. The traditional method is OK on local LANs, but on the Internet is insecure and usually foiled by NAT and/or firewalls. With port forwardign the ssh daemon creates a port on the remote host and forwards all traffic to and from that port back via the client to the local X display. The DISPLAY environment variable should be created automatically, and be configured to point to a unique display number on the remote host, so the real IP address of the X server is not required. For the original poster, I would suggest you check that DISPLAY has been setup correctly, and use 'netstat -a' for the existance of the associated port. For example, I just executed ssh -X voyager2 and got a shell giving me [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/digbyt echo $DISPLAY voyager2:10.0 The display number '10' means that the port number will be 6010 (ie the port number 6000 + n), and netstat shows: tcp0 0 *:6010 *:* LISTEN If things don't look right, and you are sure the port forwarding is enabled in your config files, then check the sshd logs for indications of what is going wrong. If it looks ok, try running 'xdpyinfo' to check communication with the server, just in case it is an application compatability issue. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using remote apps on local X server
This must be a FAQ, but I could not stumble upon a solution. With other Linux boxen, I can ssh -X into them, then run X apps on the remote with local display. On a newly installed Sarge Debian box, doing this results in the following error: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Thanks! -- Bob Smither, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. -- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using remote apps on local X server
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:17:25PM -0500, Bob Smither wrote: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Has your remote box got 'X11Forwarding yes' in its /etc/ssh/sshd_config file? Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Dwerryhouse| PGP Key ID: 0x6B91B584 Running Debian Linux for ARM processors under QEMU http://nepotismia.com/linux/qemu/arm/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using remote apps on local X server
Bob Smither wrote: This must be a FAQ, but I could not stumble upon a solution. With other Linux boxen, I can ssh -X into them, then run X apps on the remote with local display. On a newly installed Sarge Debian box, doing this results in the following error: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any suggestions as to why I can't run the remote app and see it locally? Thanks! You will need to set the DISPLAY variable and export it. I don't know what you set it to, but I do know you will have to export DISPLAY serverx: X,XX here = display and serverx=name or ipaddress of the desired server (such as 192.168.2.4: 0,0. I have just exhausted my knowledge of the matter as I don't play with exporting displays, but I hope that helps, and at the very least, get you on the right track. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
