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From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ssh and X11 problem
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On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 13:02 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> No, Stan is right; an X server is only needed on the machine that
> actually hosts the display.
> 
> The xauth error message are indicating the problem, but I don't
> know what they're telling us.  The hostname should probably be
> "localhost", and sshd_config is set up to do that by default.
> 

Right.  The host is hosting the display -- his Linux machine is the
client *to* the Xserver. 

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Glen Barber
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