single linux box on dsl?

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 13 May 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.


# startup the X server
bash# startxwin.sh

# make sure display is set correctly - or use the xterm that startxwin.sh started
(xterm)# ssh -X remotemachine xterm

Looks like cygwin is setup to use '127.0.0.1:0' by default instead of ':0'

Satish