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Date:      Thu, 30 May 2002 13:28:20 -0400
From:      mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com>
To:        G-der <gder@gder.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: X11 forwarding through sshd
Message-ID:  <20020530132820.A77747@rochester.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020530110630.A574@gder.net>; from gder@gder.net on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:06:30AM -0600
References:  <20020530104713.A353@gder.net> <20020530125453.A75831@rochester.rr.com> <20020530110630.A574@gder.net>

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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:06:30AM -0600, G-der wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:54:53PM -0400, mpd wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:47:13AM -0600, G-der wrote:
> > > I'm not a regular subscriber so a cc to me would be greatly
> > > appreciated...
> > > 
> > > Just installed XFree86 4 so I can run remote xsessions on this system.
> > > I'm running 4.5-RELEASE and using sshd to connect.
> > > 
> > > In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file X11Forwarding is set to yes but when I
> > > connect my ssh client tells me that X11 forwarding is not supported by
> > > the server.
> > > 
> > > I've restarted sshd (using kill -HUP) and have tried starting a
> > > completly new sshd session on a different port.
> > > 
> > > Obviously there's something that I'm missing but I can't figure it out
> > > at the moment.  When I did this in 3.4-RELEASE all I had to do was set
> > > X11Forwarding to yes for sshd and it worked right off the bat.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > Are you starting X with the -listen_tcp flag?
> 
> According to the man page for XFree86 the xserver should listen on tcp
> port 6000+n by default.  I didn't see an option in the man page for
> -listen_tcp...

It's in the man page of startx(1).

> 
> Also when I run xf86config it seems that all the options there are for
> setting up a local system.  I need to run this over a network...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Gene Dinkey
> gder@gder.net
> 

mike
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