>>>>> "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



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