Questions:
Does this only happen as root?
Does it only happen with netscape?
Do you have any problems using regular telnet with $DISPLAY set?
Is there a firewall/proxy between the 2 hosts?
-mtm
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Jaewan Kim wrote:
> I have a strange problem.
> When ssh to a host as root, I cannot forward netscape through port
> forwarding.
> Normal X apps work fine. And the $DISPLAY is set to a correct value.
>
> Here is what I have
> from host1 I do
> ssh -l root host2
> <I get authenticated>
> host2> netscape &
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Wed Aug 25
> 08:30:27 1999.
> a
> Rejected connection at Wed Aug 25 08:30:27 1999: X11 connection from host2
> port 56512
>
> X connection to host2:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> host2> print $DISPLAY
> host2:11.0 # I have my offset set to 10
>
>
> One funny thing is that the netstat shows something on Send-Q for some
> time and Receive-Q for others.
>
> At one point,
> netstat -n shows
> host2.22 host1.1023 8760 19 8760 0 ESTABLISHED
> host2.6011 host2.56514 32768 0 32768 0 TIME_WAIT
> and
> host2.22 host1.1023 8760 0 8760 20 ESTABLISHED
> host2.6011 host2.56514 32768 0 32768 0 TIME_WAIT
> alternatingly
>
> the second line is the forwarded connection between the two ports in host2
> and the first line is the actual ssh connection.
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Jaewan Kim
>
