Thanks to everyone for their help. However I am still not getting it to work... when i echo my DISPLAY variable in cygwin it gives me 172.0.0.1 - the loop back (or whatever the proper term is) - using this value remote xwindows does not work.
when i change the display to the actual client ip number and ssh - remote xwindows still does not work. when i ssh and am on the remote host, and i echo the DISPLAY i get nothing. but i thought this was normal since i'm using the X flag with ssh. Anyway when i set export the display=<localhost>:0.0 & then run xeyes then i get the following message Xlib: connection to "<localhost>:0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Error: Can't open display: <localhost>:0.0 (nb - it puts my ip number instead of localhost) thanks a lot & any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated Meredith > I guess I should have read your message a little more carefully > before replying. You said that sshd has been configure with > X11Forwarding turned on. > > Give the following a try: > > 1) On the local system, before running ssh, echo the value of > DISPLAY. It should have a value of "<localhost>:0.0" or something > similar. If it doesn't, manually set it to the correct value. > Verify its value by running a simple xclient like xeyes. 2) Run > your ssh -X command. 3) On the remote system, echo the value of > DISPLAY. It should have a value of "<remotesystem>:10.0" or > something similar. If it doesn't have the right value, try setting > it manually. If that doesn't work, then I'm stumped. > > >From: "Thomas Chadwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: X windows display problem > >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:07:13 -0400 > > > >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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
