How to setup a headless machine

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:58, Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> This is more like what I was looking for. I tried the command above. but 
> ssh did not recognize the -Y option.
> I tried it without the -Y (in KDE Konsole) : `ssh user at host 
> /usr/bin/kwrite` and got 'kwrite: cannot connect to X server'.
> 
> >

You need to check your firewall to let ssh through and also make sure
you have done the xhost change to permit x access.

man xhost

I have a kvm setup for a number of systems but use ssh and tunnel x over
it to my laptop most of the time.


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