From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 8:28:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B560637B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D84743FA3 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:28:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wythe001@tc.umn.edu) Received: from q1d0p9 (c-24-118-56-18.mn.client2.attbi.com[24.118.56.18]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2003021216285300200303jne>; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:28:53 +0000 Reply-To: From: "Kirk R. Wythers" To: Subject: RE: running an x app remotely via ssh Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:28:58 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <000201c2d2b3$d80e4cf0$12387618@q1d0p9> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <000101c2d2b3$9cca0760$12387618@q1d0p9> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Kirk R. Wythers [mailto:wythe001@tc.umn.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:27 AM To: 'Michael Sharp'; kwythers@umn.edu Subject: RE: running an x app remotely via ssh -----Original Message----- From: Michael Sharp [mailto:ms@probsd.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:30 AM To: kwythers@umn.edu Subject: Re: running an x app remotely via ssh Is your sshd server running with " X11Forwarding yes " Yes... I uncommented X11Forwarding and set it to YES... # Kerberos TGT Passing only works with the AFS kaserver #KerberosTgtPassing no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 #X11UseLocalhost yes #PrintMotd yes I also uncommented ForwardX11 and set it to yes... # Site-wide defaults for various options # Host * # ForwardAgent no ForwardX11 yes # RhostsAuthentication no # RhostsRSAAuthentication no # RSAAuthentication yes # PasswordAuthentication yes and are you running nix from home or using a win32 client such as putty/securecrt to connect to the work unix machine? I connecting from an wind32 client (putty)... and yes I enabled X forwarding on the connection... michael > I am able to log into my office machine (5.0-RELEASE) with ssh from home > just fine. However when I attempt to start an X-app (with putty), I get > the error: > > lorax: [/etc/ssh] $ evolution & > [1] 674 > lorax: [/etc/ssh] $ Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken > (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > What did I miss? I have a fragment of a memory about adding my home > machine to some file somewhere on my office box in order for my home > machine to have permission to receive forwarded X applications? > > Thanks > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message GnuPG Key: http://probsd.org/michael.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message