>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kyle> Hiya folks, can someone pls provide me with an idiot's guide to Kyle> getting X11 running over ssh. Warning: I know NOTHING about Windows. On Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOSX or other Unices that are running X locally, you do $ ssh -f -X host xterm & On the host you need to have X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config And providing you have xauth and xterm installed on the remote host, you should get a local terminal window, from which you can run anything you want. You *won't* be able to run the window manager there (is that what you mean by `The gui' ???). It runs on your local machine. You should however be able to run anything else. The way this works is that clients on the host talk to the SSH proxy on that host which tunnels the protocol back to the display indicated by the DISPLAY variable in ssh's environment on yo -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
