In this case the export DISPLAY IP is my desktop running the X server.  It
appears to me that xauth is not compiled.  So I get a message about xauth,
but I do get the X window, so it is working.


On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>> On 6/7/2013 at 10:10 AM, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Going back to the /bin/sh shell I was able to
> >
> >  >export DISPLAY=172.16.0.6:0.0
> >  >/usr/lpp/java/J6.0/bin/java EmptyFrame1
> >
> > And I got a blank window to pop-up on my Xwindows server.
>
> Is that the IP address of your MVS system, or your desktop?  If it's your
> desktop, then you aren't doing X11 forwarding over SSH.
>
> Normally, when using X11 forwarding over SSH with xauth, your DISPLAY
> variable gets set automatically to something like: localhost:10.0
>
> If you don't have xauth on your MVS system, that will cause problems,
> forcing you to do that export command, but it means you're not really doing
> what you think.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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