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13 May 09
after Reinstalled my SLED10 the ssh X11 froward not work.
I try it:
connect : ssh root@remoted_computer
remoted computer: export DISPLAY="mycomputer:0"
om my computer: xterm remoted_computer
in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file
X11 forwarding yes
X11 offset 10
:(
I tried with Xauth. not solve:(
14 May 09
Could be sytax; I'm not exactly sure how picky sshd is. Try changing the lines to:
X11Forwarding no
X11DisplayOffset 10
and restart sshd.
-mS
14 May 09
It sounds like something is backwards...
[local] $ ssh remote_host
[remote] $ xterm
The last line will display an xterm in your local computer. Your description sounds like you wish to display a window from your local computer in the remote computer, is that right? Also, ssh takes care of setting DISPLAY to the right value, you shouldn't need that.
14 May 09
Based on what you wrote, you're trying to start a program on your local machine and have a program window show up on a remote computer. In order to do that, you have to allow external X11 connections on your remote system, you can use
on remote shell:> xhost + (will allow all hosts to connect)
or remote shell:> xhost (name of local system, must resolve correctly)
then on your local system, run
local shell:> export DISPLAY=`who am i | sed 's/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/'`
after this, you should be able to run
local shell:> xterm
and it should pop up on your remote system.
14 May 09
after the export commands and display include xhost to allow server access of your computer
hope it helps. B)
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