I think I've figured it out. The critical missing factor was xauth on the
remote machine. I've summarized how I managed to get things to work below.
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I have a machine that I am sitting at, we shall call it local. It is from
here that I am running the ssh client to log into the remote
Greetings. I've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able to
find out why using
ssh -X remote-host
wouldn't actually let you run X apps on the distant machine (to display
locally). I'm using the absolute latest and greatest Cygwin XFree86
(fetched yesterday).
Any help would be
?
Merci beaucoup.
chris.
At 04:02 PM Thursday 3/6/2003, you wrote:
viestissä torstai 6. maaliskuuta 2003 23:04, chris horn kirjoitti:
greetings. i've looked over the mailing list, but haven't been able to
find out why using
ssh -x remote-host
have you configured the remote end to accept x
that X11Forwarding is still disabled.
Harold
Chris Horn wrote:
At the other end, /etc/ssh/sshd_config now has the line X11Forwarding yes
Still no go.
When I connect, the DISPLAY value on the remote box appears null.
When I'm local, it's localhost:0.0
The error I receive when trying to run apps is Gtk
At 04:50 PM Thursday 3/6/2003, you wrote:
Hmm looked through the mail again and saw:
| ssh -x remote-host
Have you tried ssh -X, capital X, using small x disables ssh
forwarding.
Sorry, sloppy typing. I've been using -X, the text in this email was a typo.
Meanwhile:
/ Chris Horn [EMAIL
Seeing as I don't have that clip thing, here's some paraphrased debug messages:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake auth data for X11 forwarding
debug1: Requesting X11 fwd w/ auth spoofing
debug1: channel request 0: x11-req
debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
Does that
