On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:09:35AM +1030, David Fitch wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > fw2 probably has X11Forwarding off in it's /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > no it's set to "yes". > the bit I don't get is how does it end up back on my desktop1 > box? (ie. back through fw1) > > on the remote machine my display var is always empty yet the > ssh man page says it should be automatically looked after > and set. If I manually set it then it tries to connect > back to fw1 on port 6000 which is rejected. Ie. it appears > to me it's not using ssh X forwarding at all.
Does the remote box have "xauth". X11Forwarding needs that. Try running your ssh client with a bit more -v -v verbosness. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
