Yep the host file belongs to dan. Here's the output of setting the display manually. I'm using putty. export DISPLAY=localhost:10 [dan@dan ~]$ xlogo Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 data did not match Error: Can't open display: localhost:10 Any ideas? Thanks Dan On 6/23/05, William Hooper <whooperhsd3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dan Track wrote: > >> Do you have anything else setting DISPLAY? When used by SSH, it should > >> be something like "DISPLAY=localhost:10.0". > > > Ok here's my hosts file: > > (This is for dan, right?) > > > > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > > # that require network functionality will fail. > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > 192.168.1.102 dan > > Not the problem I thought it might be. This looks OK. > > > Nope nothing else is setting the display environment variable DISPLAY. > > Something else must be. > > > As per the diagram below of what I'm doing, the "intermediary box" has > > its envrionment variable set to "localhost:10.0" but the "remote box" has > > its environment defaulted to dan:0.0. How can I get dan to send X through > > the ssh connection. > > > > my box -----> intermediary box ------> remote box (dan) > > Even via an intermediary box, they display definitly shouldn't point back > to the local :0 server. You checked this via printenv? Try manually > setting it to "localhost:10" and try something simple, like xlogo. That > should work. If it does, you need to track down what is messing with your > DISPLAY variable. > > -- > William Hooper > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
