On Friday, Feb 4, 2005, at 08:40 US/Central, Craig Smith wrote:
I want to connect from my Mac (which runs Apple's X11) to my linux box
through ssh using X11forwarding. When I connect to my linux box by typing
"ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]", everything seem fine but when I try to start a
program
the requires an X window I get the following response
Nedit: Can't open display
How do I fix this. Any help would be appreciated
First, connecting from a Mac to linux via ssh and then starting nedit does work. I do it all the time. Second, your ssh connection command looks right and should work. So, it's a matter of figuring out what isn't set correctly.
Some questions to figure this out:
- What version of OS/X are you running? I'm running 10.2.8.
- What Linux distro are you running? We're running RH7.3, RH9, FC1, Knoppix.
- On the Mac, is X11 started?
- On the Mac, what do you get when you type 'echo $DISPLAY' in a shell?
- Once you've connected to the Linux box via ssh, what do you get when you type 'echo $DISPLAY' ?
- Does your sshd service on the linux box have ssh forwarding enabled? For example:
$ grep -i forwar /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forwarding yes
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