On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:47PM -0700, Aaron Matteson wrote: > Peter W Beninate became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes, > > William Hooper wrote: > > >Michael Marsh said: > > > > > >>Really strange.... but it seems like it is sort of > > >>working... just not forwarding what I would > > >>get if I were physically sitting at the terminal. > > > > > >This has never been how X forwarding works. Perhaps you are confusing it > > >with VNC? > > > > I have heard of people tunneling X through ssh, but have never done it > > myself. > > I do this all the time like so: > > ssh -CX username@host application > > But i generally just open up a terminal and ssh to the host and enter > the application name, example. gedit and it is forwarded to my local > machine. With the proviso that the host must have permission to attach to your box, otherwise the connection will be denied. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
