On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:58, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > This is more like what I was looking for. I tried the command above. but > ssh did not recognize the -Y option. > I tried it without the -Y (in KDE Konsole) : `ssh user@host > /usr/bin/kwrite` and got 'kwrite: cannot connect to X server'. > > > You need to check your firewall to let ssh through and also make sure you have done the xhost change to permit x access. man xhost I have a kvm setup for a number of systems but use ssh and tunnel x over it to my laptop most of the time. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Blow it out your ear.