In an ssh client, under connections section, there is an option for
tunneling. Please ensure that the tunneling options are turned on.. and if
applicable, incoming/outgoing tunnels, listen/destination ports, etc. are
set.

Thanks,
Santosh

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Adam D. I. Kramer <a...@ilovebacon.org>wrote:

> Thanks very much for the reassurance.
>
> Really, I can just open a new X11 device on the same display, since the
> display (localhost:10) is effectively "reconnected" when I ssh in again.
>
> I'll reply again to this post if I find other parts of R working poorly
> after the disconnection.
>
> --Adam
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>  To answer your basic question, you do need to shut down everything
>> involivng X, that is X11() devices and the X11 dataeditor.  If you do that
>> (and graphics.off() will suffice for the first), you should be able to
>> re-open an X11 device on another display (which is what presumably a new VNC
>> connection gives you).
>>
>> The warning comes from any X erorr, and it is not possible to know how
>> serious it is without external information.
>>
>> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Patrick Connolly wrote:
>>>
>>>         The problem, and maybe I'm just whining here, is that because the
>>>>> data sets are large this takes several minutes where I'm basically just
>>>>> sitting around.  This happens once every other day as the VPN software
>>>>> I'm using "times out" after about 24 hours and thus the ssh session
>>>>> dies.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to do anything about the VPN software?  I use tightVNC to
>>>> do something similar and it doesn't time out after 24 hours.  Even
>>>> closing
>>>> the desktop machine down altogether does not lose the ssh connexion.
>>>> Restarting the desktop a week later will still find the X session without
>>>> loss.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The VPN software is managed and maintained by the company I'm doing
>>> statistical computing work for...out of my control. Your comments about
>>> TightVNC are pretty impressive, though--I'm not really sure how that
>>> would
>>> work...though if you set your ssh connection to not push any data towards
>>> your computer, I gather the server would have no reason to believe you
>>> were
>>> unresponsive?
>>>
>>> In any case, this sadly doesn't help me, but many thanks!
>>>
>>> For now, I'm just trying my hardest to remeber to dev.off() when I'm done
>>> using graphics.
>>>
>>> --Adam
>>>
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>> --
>> Brian D. Ripley,                  rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
>> Professor of Applied Statistics,  
>> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/%7Eripley/>
>> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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