Re: Fail to connect from OSX to remote X-desktop?
Re: Fail to connect from OSX to remote X-desktop?
- Subject: Re: Fail to connect from OSX to remote X-desktop?
- From: "Tom Scogland" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 11:00:57 -0500
Is the remote sshd even set to accept X11 forwarding requests?
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Wil Decius
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi Hans,
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Hans Kruse <
email@hidden> wrote:
> At least X forwarding over ssh should now work.
Unfortunately, not,
root@desktop> echo $DISPLAY
/tmp/launch-gKIM08/:0
root@desktop> ssh -X -Y -F /usr/local/etc/ssh/ssh_config -l
kde_domu.mydomain.com
Last login: Fri Aug 1 18:44:07 2008 from 192.168.1.6
root has logged on pts/0 from 192.168.1.6.
root@kde_domu>
root@kde_domu> xeyes
Error: Can't open display:
root@kde_domu> echo $DISPLAY
DISPLAY: Undefined variable.
root@kde_domu> setenv DISPLAY :0
root@kde_domu> xeyes
Error: Can't open display: :0
root@kde_domu> setenv DISPLAY 192.168.1.6:0
root@kde_domu> xeyes
(nothing happens ... no response)
^C
root@kde_domu>
Again, connecting to VNC server @ the server, or thru an SSH-tunnel to
the VNC server, works just fine.
Wil
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