dhcp vs gnome?

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Satish,
>    Thanks for the information on your workaround of assigning
> a hostname for 127.0.0.1. However how does this impact running
> remote x sessions?

This will still work as normally.

> That is if you discover the ip address that
> dhcp is assigning the machine can you still use 'ssh -A'
> to run a x window program remotely on the machine? Or does this
> workaround confuse that?

ssh just forwards the local display ':0.0'. To it - the local hostname
doesn't matter - as long as the local 'xauth' is correct.

>              Jack
> ps In particular on your machine can you do...
>
> xhost <remote_machine_running_sshd_with_x11_forwarding_on>

you don't need this for ssh X11forwarding

> ssh -A <remote_machine_running_sshd_with_x11_forwarding_on>
> xcalc
>
> ...and see the xcalc show up locally?
>

yes - give it a try.

Satish