On May 13, 2004 at 17:14, Satish Balay in a soothing rage wrote: >On Thu, 13 May 2004, Jeff Vian wrote: > >> I have done some trying to get X forwarding running via ssh. >> >> I use cygwin to log in from my work pc via ssh to my linux box but as >> yet have been unable to get the X forwarding to cooperate even after >> trying all the steps listed on the various sites I found with google. >> There is no firewall at issue here. I must be missing something subtle, >> but am at a loss as to what. >> >> Can you provide any pointers/instructions on how you made this work >> properly. > ># startup the X server >bash# startxwin.sh > ># make sure display is set correctly - or use the xterm that startxwin.sh started >(xterm)# ssh -X remotemachine xterm > >Looks like cygwin is setup to use '127.0.0.1:0' by default instead of ':0' Also make sure that the remote box has X11Forwarding on in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 This PORCUPINE knows his ZIPCODE ... And he has "VISA"!! 07:53:04 up 54 days, 20:25, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
