You have to use ssh -X to forward the x connection via ssh ray
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keith Vassallo Sent: 23 January 2004 16:03 To: 'Malta Linux User Group - general list' Subject: [LINUX.ORG.MT] X on SSH Hi guys, I'm trying to connect to my Linux "server" via SSH from another machine. This works, but when I try to start X, I get the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] keithvassallo]$ startx Using authority file /home/keithvassallo/.Xauthority Writing authority file /home/keithvassallo/.Xauthority Using authority file /home/keithvassallo/.Xauthority Writing authority file /home/keithvassallo/.Xauthority Authentication failed - cannot start X server. Perhaps you do not have console ownership?Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up. xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console [EMAIL PROTECTED] keithvassallo]$ What am I doing wrong? --------------------------------------------- Keith Vassallo http://www.keithvassallo.com Linux Registered User #290991 _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
