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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:46:41AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac sez: > Denny White wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > > >For the last couple of days I've tried everything I can think of to > >make XForwarding work with ssh. As per the FAQ, I have set it like so: > > > > > >In sshd_config > > > >X11Forwarding yes > > > > > >In ssh_config > > > >ForwardAgent yes > >ForwardX11 yes > > > >I can use it passably well in one direction from a box across the > >room to the one I do most of my work on. But, when I try it from > >this box to the one across the room, I get the xauth error message > >along with all typed characters doubled on the screen. I went ahead > >anyway and typed 'display somefile.jpg' just to see what I'd get & > >got this: > > > >Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server > >Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > >display: unable to open X server `localhost:10.0'. > > > >I've read the man page on xauth(1) and experimented with its > >commands. I've even wiped out the .Xauthority file on both boxes > >and restarted X, to no avail. Possibly I should mention too, that > >I boot on both boxes to a xdm login. I don't know if that would > >have any bearing on the problem or not. Thanks for any help I > >can get on this. > > What happens when you try to do the following? > > > Try to do remote login with as follows > ssh -Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get this: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. And, everything I type at the prompt is doubled. > you should be now in the shell on the remote host > > try to start x client like xdvi or xfig or something like emacs by > typing xdvi > > If xdvi pops up that means that the client is running on the remote host > but it is displayer on the local X server Okay, if after getting in I try to open something like xzgv, I get: Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 Like I said earlier, I read the man page too on xauth & tried sending xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge - but it doesn't appear to help. I still get the error messages and double typed characters. -- Denny White All messages scanned by ClamAssassin http://jameslick.com/clamassassin/ =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A =============================================================== iD8DBQFHxo5uy0Ty5RZE55oRAu+XAJ9PrA3/AhZ5zYexks6a6/XUpudTrACgt5sZ 9LnpJQFQep+KuG3zqqA/hV4= =ceCs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
