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Re: SSH & XFree86
- From: Andrew Markebo <andrew dot markebo at telia dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Cc: johnny at hwr dot arizona dot edu
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 20:03:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: SSH & XFree86
- References: <3DDE7CAB.3080208@msu.edu><Pine.GSO.4.40.0211221154110.7056-100000@hydis6.hwr.arizona.edu>
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What is the variable DISPLAY set to on the unix-machines??
What is the variable DISPLAY set to in the terminal you do the ssh -X
command from?
/Andy
/ John Burkhart <johnny@hwr.arizona.edu> wrote:
| To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?),
>
| I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine to access a remote Unix
| system. My machine is behind a router, therefore when i run ssh with the
| parameters : ssh -X -l username hostname
| I get the follwing error:
| Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
>
| Subsequently the remote machine gives me a "can't open display" error
| whenever I try to run anything like xmgr or even and xterm on the remote
| machine. Do I need to use port forwarding? If so, how do I do this? The
| router has a public IP address, but the IP on my computer is invisible to
| the WAN as far as I can tell.
>
| Thank you, john
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