Remote client display to Leopard X11
Remote client display to Leopard X11
- Subject: Remote client display to Leopard X11
- From: Richard Siek <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:51:20 -0500
I am a telecommuter and thus the only person on my LAN. So I am not
particularly concerned about machine to machine security on my LAN.
Thus, my practice has been to telnet from Mac to my SUN/Solaris box
and have my .profile automatically set DISPLAY to the IP Address of my
Mac. I could run GUI apps on Solaris and they would display back to my
Mac with no problem. That was under Tiger.
With Leopard, that all stopped working. I spent a lot of time Googling
and searching Apple discussions and could find no solution. But I did
see references to people using ssh and displaying back successfully.
So I finally installed and configured sshd on my SUN Solaris box and
set the following sshd X11 tunneling options in /usr/local/etc/
sshd_config:
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
After doing that I could ssh -Y user@remote-machine and get X GUI apps
to display back finally.
Yes, this is more secure. But I still consider it a bug that X11 on
Leopard will not support telneting to a remote computer, then setting
DISPLAY to the Mac X Windows server machine's IP address:0.0, such as
192.168.10.6:0.0.
Or is there a way to do this and I just haven't discovered it yet?
Rick
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