Jack Wallen wrote: > Jonathan Allen wrote: > > > > Has anyone had any success getting remote X sessions running between > > machines over the open Net using ssh pipes ? I've been looking at > > the FreeNX tool but wondered if there is any easy way to just make > > this happen - any tricks and tips anyone would care to share ? > > if you're talking about doing this between Linux machines it's simple. > you have to add the -X flag like so: > > ssh -v -l username 192.168.1.3 -X OK, the verbose output shows it is prepared to do X forwarding for the session, but what then - at the shell prompt - how do you make the X session start ? Typing 'startx' complains that display 0 is already in use (as indeed it is, locally). Jonathan
