Xsession dont open screen remotely being RHEL5

[Mike Kearey]

Daniel Romeo wrote:
> Estimated co-time-keepers!
> Habitually I connect in my workstation running RHEL3AS to a Server 
> running  RHEL3AS (ssh way).. and remotely run
> one Xsession to get a remote graphic session from the Server, and Its
> all right...But when I connect from another workstation running RHEL5
> server, the remote graphic session execute but doesnt show me the remote
> screen.:
> 
> [root at yumserver xdm]# ./Xsession
> message in /root/.xsession-errors is :
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
> xrdb: Can't open display ''
> xrdb: Can't open display ''
> xmodmap:  unable to open display ''
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xmbind:  Can't open display
> 
> (gnome-session:2081): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> Any idea?
> Greetings, Daniel
> 

RHEL4 and RHEL5 disabled X forwarding by default on the ssh client.

Use command :

ssh -X username at address


and it will be enabled.

Regards