On Thu, 13 May 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Thanks to all of you... this has been a very educational thread for me. Can > someone point me to a beginner's guide to X Forwarding, particularly > through SSH? I keep hearing that X can display the results/output of a > program on another machine, and that this can be tunneled through SSH. > Great, fine, I get it... and I'd *love* to do it. Yet I can't seem to find > a HOWTO that will explain the how and the why to me... > > An FM I can R, please? Can't say I know of a good doc to read. I'm sure googling (with the correct keywords) will point to some useful info. I guess the thing to understand here is PortForwarding feature in ssh. X11Forwarding is nothing but PortForwarding - with a little bit extra for X protocol to work with it (xauth ..). With regards to usage - the simplest thing is: - make sure DISPLAY is set correctly echo $DISPLAY xterm & - connect to remove machine via ssh with X11Forwarding ssh -X remotemachine - now on the remote machine - notice the funky display echo $DISPLAY - any X-applications started on this machine will now get forwarded through the ssh-x-display back to the console-X via ssh. xterm & Satish
