On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jack Howarth wrote:
Satish, Thanks for the information on your workaround of assigning a hostname for 127.0.0.1. However how does this impact running remote x sessions?
This will still work as normally.
That is if you discover the ip address that dhcp is assigning the machine can you still use 'ssh -A' to run a x window program remotely on the machine? Or does this workaround confuse that?
ssh just forwards the local display ':0.0'. To it - the local hostname doesn't matter - as long as the local 'xauth' is correct.
Jack ps In particular on your machine can you do...
xhost <remote_machine_running_sshd_with_x11_forwarding_on>
you don't need this for ssh X11forwarding
ssh -A <remote_machine_running_sshd_with_x11_forwarding_on> xcalc
...and see the xcalc show up locally?
yes - give it a try.
Satish
