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Re: ssh X11 forwarding



On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Adi Stav wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:01:10PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

> > I'm trying to connect from one linux box (with openssh 2.5.2p2 and XFree
> > 3.3.6) to another one (with openssh openssh-2.9p1 and XFree 4). I can't
> > getX11 forwarding to work over that connection:I always get the error
> > message:
> >
> > Error: Can't open display: server:10.0
> >
> > $ echo $DISPLAY
> > server:10.0
>
> Pointing out the obvious: if "server" isn't equivalent to localhost,
> try changing it. Also try strace and see where it actually fails.

This is the normal behaviour of ssh's X11 forwarding. And indeed port 6010
on the server was listening. Furthermore, I was able to connect with an X
client from 'client' to server:10 and have that X client displayed on my
local display, as I mentioned in my post.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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