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RE: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session
- From: Vince Hoffman <Vince dot Hoffman at uk dot circle dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:01:31 +0100
- Subject: RE: X server acting funny when displaying remote KDE session
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
> > No. Ssh uses port forwarding. That works by accepting X
> > connections
> > locally at the client machine and than forwarding the data
> > packets
> > that arrive on that "display" to your actual server through
> > an
> > internal SSH tunnel. Your DISPLAY variable on the client
> > should be
> > something like localhost:10.0.
>
> Ah, that means that xhost + should not be needed because
> neither the X server nor the client notices that the
> connection isn't local. Well, I need xhost +, so the
> tunneling is most probably not working. But why does ssh not
> complain? I do provide the -X option!
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
Is it enabled at the server ?
(in /path/to/sshd_config is the option "X11Forwarding" set to yes ?)