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Re: remote login to linux host?
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 13:30:09 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: remote login to linux host?
- References: <bjhm18$2ia$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Jan van Veldhuizen wrote:
> I have cygwin installed on my XP, and I can succesfully login to my host if
> I am home.
> I use 'xwin -query <host>'.
> If I am outside the network and try it over the internet I get only the grey
> Xwin screen.
> First I thought my NAT and firewall was blocking, but that is not true. I
> defined my linux host as defserver in my NAT, so everything is routed to the
> host. Telnetting is okay, I can use SWAT to remotely manage samba, VNC
> works, only cygwin refuses to show my login screen...
If you have NAT between your host and the remotehost then xdmcp will not work.
Use the X11Forwarding technique of ssh instead.
DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X remotehost
bye
ago
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