What is the value of the DISPLAY environment variable on the remote machine after running ssh?
It should have a value of "<remotehostname>:10.0", or something similar. If it's empty, or the value looks like "<remotehostname>:0.0", "<localhostname:0.0", or simply ":0", then there is a problem with the X forwarding. Note that the ssh daemon on the remote machine has to be explicitly told to enable X forwarding. This might be to blame. I've also seen the existance of the .Xauthority file in the home directory on the local Cygwin host cause problems. >From: "Meredith Finkelstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: X windows display problem >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:41:41 -0400 > >Hi >I have found some related posts in the archives, but nothing that seems to >solve my problem, which is: > >I start startxwin.sh from my client (which runs windows2000) (I have tried >both cygwin shell and cmd) >then i open up an ssh connection (ssh -X -l username hostname) to my host >computer which is running red hat 7.3. The sshd config file has >X11Forwarding turned on > >when i try to open xterm, xeyes, anything - i get the following error: > >xterm Xt error: Can't open display: > >this happens no matter which window i am sshing from - cmd, cygwin, >xwindows. >and /tmp/XWin.log displays no error messages > >Any suggestions? >Thanks, >Meredith > > > > >-- >Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org) _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
