Re: Cannot connect to a Sun server using xterm

[a12 <a12 at swipnet dot se>]

Hi,

When I enter in the PC window:
ssh -Y userid@sun-host
I get a request for password, and I am logged into the Sun host.

Then I start the graphical application in the Sun host, and I get the 
following error message:
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

So I checked the DISPLAY variable, and as it was set to 
'localhost:10.0', I changed it to 'a.b.c.d:10.0', and restarted the 
application in the Sun host.
A while later, I got the following error message:
*** OI_init: Error, cannot connect to X server
ntc: couldn't open a connection to a X server

ntc is the name of the graphical application. As far as I understand, 
ntc cannot connect to a X server.

Any hints ?

Regards,

Marek

Alexander Gottwald skrev:

> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Henry Camacho wrote:
>
>
> > I've done the following using our Sun hosts with success...
> >
> > ssh -Y -l root <sunhost> 
>
> Right. But using root for doing non-administrative tasks is a high
> security risk. 
>
>
> > > xterm -e ssh -Y userid@<sun-host> <sun-host> & 
>
> What does this mean:
>
> - start xterm (in the background)
> - in xterm start ssh to host sun-host with user userid
> - on sunhost start command sunhost
>
> the last part is the problem
>
> $ xterm -e ssh -Y userid@<sun-host> &
>
> should work much better
>
>
> > > xterm -e ssh userid@<sun-host> -Y <sun-host> & replied to the password
> > > request, and the X window from the Sun server closed too.
> > after ssh failed, the xterm is closed because it was not interactive.
> >
> > You should try starting ssh from the cygwin prompt first. This will keep
> > the error message.
> >
> > open cygwin prompt
> >
> > $ ssh userid@<sun-host> -Y <sun-host> &
>
> Oops this should be 
>
> $ ssh -Y userid@sun-host
>
> or like mentioned above
>
> $ ssh -Y -l userid sun-host
>
> bye
> 	ago