Re: yet another question re: X11 tunneling via ssh
Re: yet another question re: X11 tunneling via ssh
- Subject: Re: yet another question re: X11 tunneling via ssh
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:42:39 -0800
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On Sat, Feb 18, 2006, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
>On 2006/02/18 18:43, Martin Costabel wrote:
>> Ken Wang wrote:
>> []
>>
>>> difference, as I still get "Can't open display
>>> remote.machine.net:11.0".
>>
>> This "remote.machine.net:11.0" is somewhat suspicious. Normally you
>> would see the DISPLAY on the remote machine automatically set to
>> "localhost:10.0". Do you interfere somehow with the automatic setting of
>> this variable?
>
>Not necessarily suspicious... If there's already another ssh session w/
>X11 forwarding in place, it will have localhost:10.0 as its display.
>This one would get localhost:11.0, the next localhost:12.0, etc.
This is controlled in the sshd_config file with the ``X11UseLocalhost''
option. I have seen some systems where X11 forwarding won't work unless
the real hostname is in the DISPLAY (SCO OpenServer if I remember correctly
running older versions of ssh).
Bill
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