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Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
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Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11


  • Subject: Re: Remote client display to Leopard X11
  • From: Merle Reinhart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:06:52 -0500

Actually, this does work in Leopard, just as it did in Tiger (you just don't have to start X11 locally first). All the same stuff applies with Leopard; make sure that port 6000 is open to the remote machine in your Mac firewall; setup the xauth information or run xhost on the Mac to allow the connection to the xserver from the solaris box.

Merle




On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Richard Siek wrote:

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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