Doh! I forgot to copy the X11 list - I wondered why people were continuing to be so helpful...
I also discovered the (silly) reason why all the xhost/DISPLAY stuff wasn't working - while in the Manchester location I was not setting the DISPLAY properly on my linux box - I thought my Mac's name was more universal within my organization than it apparently is.
Anyway, many thanks to all those who chimed in to help me out :-)
Mick.
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From: email@hidden
> Hi Jamie,
>
> Your suggestion did work so I am up and running. I've done the rlogin method
> successfully in the past and am stumped as to why it doesn't work now. The only
> reason I use rlogin is because I can put my Mac's name in the .rhosts file and I
> don't have to worry about both remembering my ever-changing password and sending
> it in the clear. In ssh, I can achieve the same thing by storing my machine name
> in /etc/ssh/shosts.equiv but that is against my company's security policies.
> However, thankfully those same crack security guys still allow rlogin. Pretty
> messed up, huh!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mick
>
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Jamie Kennea <email@hidden>
> >
> > On May 28, 2008, at 3:23 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > I'm kind of stuck here - none of the IT guys want to deal with a Mac
> > > problem :-(.
> >
> > I wonder what sort of IT guys you have that let you use rlogin in the
> > 21st century! Seriously though, it sounds like the setting of the
> > DISPLAY variable in your linux cshrc file is overriding the ssh
> > assigned version. Either that or the sshd on linux is specifically not
> > allowing X11 forwarding.
> >
> > When sshing into a remote linux box, if you type echo $DISPLAY it
> > should show something like:
> >
> > localhost:10.0
> >
> > Try commenting out the place where it sets up the DISPLAY variable in
> > your linux .cshrc and see if it works.
> >
> > Jamie
>
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