On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0800, John Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 March 2005 15:11, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Don't forget to start the X server (Xfree, Xorg, or Xnest) on :2 before > running that. You shouldn't need to use xhost, ssh takes care of that for > you. Also, you might need to use -Y on the ssh line. > > > Is this possibly because I don't have specific ports open? > No, since the connection is tunneled through SSH > > > > > Not sure about the Xnest suggestion as this is a network of both > > Gentoo and FC2 machines and my FC2 machines do not seem to have Xnest. > > It doesn't matter if the other systems have it. Since it's just an X server, > it only runs on the local system. Clients don't care what kind of server they > connect to. > > Here's a little shell script I wrote to do this just now. It should work at > least on Gentoo clients. Note that I had a problem when sshing to localhost > that it would unset DISPLAY, but it worked when sshing to my server. YMMV Hi John, Thanks for working on this. I set rXs up as a bash file, gave it execute rights and fired it off, first against a local FC2 remote machine and second against a distant Gentoo remote machine. In both cases the script seems to fail looking for my password. I think this must be assuming the 'passwordless X session that Jeff Smelser talked about yesterday? I'll have to go look for how to do that. I presume that it's an sshd config option at the far end. That scares me a bit as it would seem to open up the machine to who knows what problems. I watch the logs on one of these boxes and I see all sorts of kiddie scripts trying to hack into Windows boxes. I don't want that sort of problem showing up at this time. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
