Re: X11 Forwarding

From the ssh man page (at least the version I'm running)

-X      Enables X11 forwarding.  This can also be specified on a 
per-host basis in a configuration file.

Have you tried ssh -X "host" ?

Cheers,

Jason

paul.rogers@juno.com wrote:
> I am having difficulty getting X11 forwarding to work, DISPLAY isn't
> set.  This is an LFS-4.1 based system, rather than a commercial distro
>  (kernel-2.4.31, XOrg-6.8, openssh-3.9p1), so I may not have all my
> scripts setup right.  (I added 6010 to /etc/services, and that was no
> help.)  I have enabled forwarding in sshd_config on the server &
> ssh_config on the client.  "ssh server" from the command prompt gives
> me a login shell on the server.  Done from a client xterm I also get
> the login shell.  "ssh server set" from the client xterm has no DISPLAY
> variable.  "ssh server xkde", where xkde is a script in the default
> search path to add to the path and "startkde", fails in xsetroot & xset
> because it can't open the display.  I've tried running startkde from
> the login shell I get on the server with the same result.  Honest, I've
> tried searching the web for ideas, but nothing seems to work.  Some
> said it was necessary to set DISPLAY and other said it wasn't. 
> "DISPLAY=192.168.23.12:0.0 ssh server xkde" also fails.  The site just
> says set the config files and it whould work, but no joy here!  Help!!
>
>
> Paul Rogers  (paul.rogers@juno.com)
> http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/
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