X over SSH
James Wilkinson
fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Thu May 13 22:36:55 UTC 2004
Jeff Vian wrote:
> I have done some trying to get X forwarding running via ssh.
>
> I use cygwin to log in from my work pc via ssh to my linux box but as
> yet have been unable to get the X forwarding to cooperate even after
> trying all the steps listed on the various sites I found with google.
> There is no firewall at issue here. I must be missing something subtle,
> but am at a loss as to what.
>
> Can you provide any pointers/instructions on how you made this work
> properly.
>
I've got this working.
Stuff you might want to check:
* Do you have a recent cygwin install? You might want to run setup.exe
again.
* Do you have X installed in cygwin? They've recently moved from
Xfree86 to X.org. You might want to uninstall all the X stuff under
Cygwin and reinstall it from scratch.
* Did you run ssh -XC my.home.pc (with both the X and the C)?
(Compression is not essential but it certainly helps).
* Do you have X11Forwarding yes set in your /etc/ssh/sshd_confg file
on the Linux box?
* Once you've sshed home, is $DISPLAY set, and what to?
* What happens if you try running (say) mozilla?
* IME, it's not particularly fast at the best of times with modern
software, all the eye candy, and font smoothing. What sort of
connection are we talking about?
Hope this helps,
James.
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