On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 03:16, Christopher Booth wrote: > In your /etc/ssh/ssh_config file is there a line that says > ForwardX11 yes
Yes, this is set okay. > > also check for a line > CheckHostIP yes > > a guess but try making that no That was commented out so I made that explicitly no. > > also clients should log on by > ssh -X I am actually connecting from Solaris so it's "+x", however, when I connect to my box with a static IP configured and the hostname in the /etc/hosts you don't need to do this as it forwards X11 as per the config. It seems that the problem is something to do with X authority adding the host name as "lonewolf" only and not the fully qualified name (I don't have a registered hostname) or the IP of the machine instead. I got this when I removed my local host name from the /etc/hosts file. /usr/bin/X11/xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "lonewolf:12.0" in "add" command Is there a setting for it to use the IP of the host? I ha da read through the manpage for xauth but it's quite confusing. > > Chris > > On 25 Feb 2002 15:31:36 +1100 > "Simon Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Calling SSH/X gurus! > > > > I am trying to get X11 forwarding over SSH working. > > > > I am using DHCP to obtain an IP and bring up my interface (eth0). > > > > When I SSH to my box, X forwarding works if there is an entry in my > > /etc/hosts file that matches the IP of that box (when I use a static > > IP). But it doesn't work if there is no such entry there. > > > > How do I get it to do this dynamically? > > > > I have read a bit about setting the DISPLAY variable to the fully > > qualified hostname but can't work out what display number(?) i.e. :10.0 > > etc.. to use? From what I can gather, it uses an offset of 10 for the > > remote displays. > > > > Any pointers would be gratefully received, as ever :-) > > > > TIA. > > > > -- > > ************** > > * Simon Wong * > > ************** > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ************** * Simon Wong * ************** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
