Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
If you have ssh on the remote machine, you should definitely use the built-in X forwarding mechanism of ssh.I apologize for the off topic post, but I thught someone could give me help. We are having trouble getting our Unix machines to recognize the X11 windows from OSX. So i can say telnet into the machine (either a Sun or an SGI), can give regular commands, but if I try running Nedit say, it gives an error that it can't open the display. I have tried changing the display setting in the environment to what I thought would be correct, but with no success.
Make sure that you have your X server running locally and that the DISPLAY environment veriable is set (to :0.0 usually) in the terminal window from which you start the ssh session. Then say "ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED]", and the next nedit command should open its window on your Mac's desktop. No setting of DISPLAY necessary on the remote side. This assumes that X forwarding in sshd_config on the remote machine is not disabled by some misguided security freak.
If you don't have ssh on the remote machines, you have at least to run "sudo xhost sun.or.sgi" locally, but you may have to do some acrobatics with xauth, too. And you should have a bad conscience ;-)
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Martin
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