Problems forwarding X over ssh

[Jack Bowling]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:47PM -0700, Aaron Matteson wrote:
> Peter W Beninate became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
> > William Hooper wrote:
> > >Michael Marsh said:
> > >
> > >>Really strange.... but it seems like it is sort of
> > >>working... just not forwarding what I would
> > >>get if I were physically sitting at the terminal.
> > >
> > >This has never been how X forwarding works.  Perhaps you are confusing it
> > >with VNC?
> > 
> > I have heard of people tunneling X through ssh, but have never done it 
> > myself.
> 
> I do this all the time like so:
> 
> ssh -CX username at host application
> 
> But i generally just open up a terminal and ssh to the host and enter
> the application name, example. gedit and it is forwarded to my local
> machine.

With the proviso that the host must have permission to attach to your box,
otherwise the connection will be denied.

-- 
Jack Bowling
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