recompile ssh with ./configure --enable-X11-forwarding
Michael Hulet
Network System Administrator
ITTC, University of Kansas
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Yannis ALIFERIS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I try to export the X display from an HP with
> HP-UX 10.2 to a Sun with SunOS 5.5.1, using ssh
> version 2.0.13, installed on both machines.
>
> While a command-line connection works fine, the
> X Forwarding does not. According to the man pages:
>
> "If the user is using X11 (the DISPLAY environment
> variable is set), the connection to the X11
> display is automatically forwarded".
>
> On the other hand, it is stated that "the user
> should not manually set DISPLAY".
>
> So it seems that DISPLAY must be set, but not by
> the user. By whom and where, then?
>
> In my case, I connect from the Sun to the HP by
> ssh and then give (on C shell) "set DISPLAY" but
> it doesn't work.
>
> Do you have any ideas?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Yannis ALIFERIS
> PhD Student in Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering - Microwave Imaging
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