Can't run x things over ssh link

P Jones deerfieldtech at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 23:33:41 UTC 2007


Gene;

On 1/29/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I have a kubuntu box out in the workshop that I normally admin either from
> its own keyboard or from here over an ssh link.  Then I installed FC6 on
> this box.
>
> Now the various graphical stuff fails with a can't determine display
> message.  I just checked in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config, and in
> the /etc/ssh/sshd_config files on that box and 'X11Forwarding yes' is
> present in both files, so its apparently something on this end.
>
> What do I enable, in what file, what it takes to restore this
> functionality with FC6 that worked so nicely in FC2?

Try the -Y option, as in "ssh -vY -lusername boxinworkshop.domain.com .

-P




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