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Re: Tunneling does not seem to work here (newbie)?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:31:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Tunneling does not seem to work here (newbie)?
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On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, savantsaro wrote:
> box 1: Windows 2000 Server
> cygwin
>
> box 2: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
>
> cygwin was installed with openssh, today, from the latest setup.exe.
FYI, it's probably a good idea to review <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>
before sending bug reports... Reading
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README would also help.
> Basic scenario:
> startxwin.bat -> X icon appears in taskbar, terminal opens
> ssh -Y -l username box2name -> ssh connection is established and works fine
> emacs & -> [1]+ Stopped emacs
>
> Troubleshooting already done:
> I have also tried with putty, with X11 tunneling enabled, and tried
> running other apps (specifically a java swing application, which does
> not stop but simply does nothing on box 1)
> The DISPLAY environment variable was not set.
There's your problem. You should set it before running "ssh -Y". For
example try either
export DISPLAY=:0.0; ssh -Y username@boxname
or even
DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -Y username@boxname
-- both should work.
> I tried setting it to "localhost:0.0" and to ":0", with no effect.
> The config files for ssh (~/.ssh/config and /etc/ssh_config) did not
> exist.
Ah. Did you run /bin/ssh-user-config?
> I created the first one with a single line (ForwardX11 yes) with no
> change.
>
> Please help. I know cygwin is a good, working program, and I'm an
> intelligent computer guy - why won't it work for me?
Maybe Cygwin just doesn't like you? ;-)
You know, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>...
Igor
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