Here's what I use. We don't have ssh forwarding enabled on the Linux box
(for some reason).
On my Mac I type: xhost + ipaddress.of.linux.box
On the Linux box I type: setenv DISPLAY ipaddress.of.myMacOSX.box:0.0
It's worked fine for me.
Jeff
> ----------
> From: Nathan Callahan
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] X11 forwarding
>
> What you are doing will work... But it's not actually forwarding the X
> connection over ssh. Which, as long as you're not trying to be secure and
>
> encrypted about it is fine and dandy. At the moment it's just a "normal"
> X
> connection.
>
> "xhost +" should not be necessary, as the connection should be coming
> from
> the local end of the ssh session (as I understand it).
>
> It's possible that you are using the ssh client that comes with Mac OS X,
> which does not have X11 forwarding built into is
>
> which ssh
>
> should return "/sw/usr/bin/ssh" not "/usr/bin/ssh"
>
> Also, when I said localhost... I meant localhost :) but the ip of the
> machine
> should work too, not sure though... untested.
>
> You should be able to start xclients from the terminal that you have
> ssh'ed
> from on the local machine, otherwise the DISPLAY is incorrectly set. So,
> a
> plain old:
>
> ssh -C -X linuxhost.mydomain
>
> from XTerm should also work. When you get there:
>
> echo $DISPLAY
> should be something like "linuxhost.mydomain:10" and definitely should
> have a
> value, otherwise X11 forwarding isn't happening.
>
> But hey... It's working for you now... So I'll pull my head in :)
>
> Regards,
> Nathan
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:31, Jeremy Higgs wrote:
> > On 14/6/02 7:27 PM, "Francois Rigaut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I assume you have done a "xhost +" on the machine you want to display
> to.
> > > (and of course that you have a X server running there :-)
> > > F
> >
> > That fixed it, thanks!
> >
> > I also had to set the DISPLAY variable to '192.168.0.2:0'...
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
>
>
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