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Re: another thing
- From: ed <ed at scrunge dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 00:05:29 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: another thing
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Chris,
xhost the remote machine, and try opening up an xterm on the remote
machine with the -display flag. If you don't have xterm on the remote
machine, then you don't have X installed on the remote machine, and
therefore X11 forwarding would be worthless.
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Chris Horn wrote:
> Seeing as I don't have that clip thing, here's some paraphrased debug messages:
>
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake auth data for X11 forwarding
> debug1: Requesting X11 fwd w/ auth spoofing
> debug1: channel request 0: x11-req
> debug1: Remote: No xauth program; cannot forward with spoofing.
>
> Does that mean that I need to install X (or at least xauth) on the remote
> machine?
>
> Thanks for all the help so far.
> chris.
>
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