Re: X11 Error: Couldn't find per display information
Re: X11 Error: Couldn't find per display information
- Subject: Re: X11 Error: Couldn't find per display information
- From: Randy Ford <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:34:57 -0600
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 12:57 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote:
The only steps on a regular Mac OS X box that are necessary to locally
display remotely started X apps are:
a) start X11.app/XDarwin
b) do an "ssh -X remote_hostname" (either from within an xterm, or
from within terminal.app *after* locally doing a "setenv DISPLAY :0")
c) start the remote app.
No editing of config files, opening up of ports or changing firewall
rules is necessary at all.
In my case, I had to enable ForwardX11 in sshd_config. It wasn't
enabled in any of my Macs, and I wanted to ssh between them. I'm not
always working at the same machine. I also couldn't get ssh -X to
work, but I don't know why. I enabled ForwardX11 in ssh_config and
that worked. The machine I was coming from has packages outside of
fink installed, so it may have been some strange configuration
elsewhere that caused the problem.
I agree that if one uses ssh with X11 tunneling, one has no need to
open up the firewall. However, in some cases, the remote machine may
not support ssh, of if it does, it may not support X11 tunneling.
randy.
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