Hi Thanks for that. It was well worth reading. Unfortunately its still not working. I'll tell you what I'm doing. my box -----> intermediary box ------> remote box between each I am using ssh -X ( I tried -Y aswell). Now that X is listening to port 6000 ( although I don't know why I need to do that if the display is going to be forwarded by ssh) I tried another app and I got this: gthumb Xlib: connection to "80.7.169.154:0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (gthumb:24715): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any ideas. Thanks Dan On 6/23/05, Walter Francis <wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry, I haven't read all the responses so far, here's my list of > suggestions/comments. > > By default for some years now, the TCP port has been disabled for X, > instead it's suggested one use ssh tunneling. This is set in the > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file, most likely has --nolisten tcp on the > X line. > > The better solution is to just use ssh by calling ssh -Y machine, > which sets up a tunnel which should give you a display variable. The > only reason you should have to manually set a display variable is if > you're using X over TCP instead of over ssh. > > In case you're wondering about ssh -X vs -Y, I don't know. I do know > that -X seems to time out after a few minutes, so if you ssh -X machine, > then 10 minutes later decide to run something, the tunnel no longer > works. ssh -Y seems perminant. Perhaps that is why it's called "trusted". > > If you can ssh into the machine, you can run applications over it, no > additional ports are used. So.. > > localmachine# ssh -Y remotemachine > user/login > remotemachine# firefox > > And it'll work, firefox will come up on localmachine. I can't imagine > why it wouldn't. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
