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Re: ssh -X : connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012, at 19:53, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 20/04/2012 11:43, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> > My setup so far (which is working well), was to use Xming as X-Server
> > and putty for logging into our Solaris hosts via ssh. Since I have
> > Cygwin installed, I thought I could use its ssh equally well, so I
> > exported the ssh key from putty to the format understood by ssh, and
> > used the following bash command to login to the Solaris host:
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0.0 TERM=xterm ssh -p 22 -K -X -i MyPrivateKeyFile
> > MyUserName@SolarisHost
> >
> > When I now try to start an X application, I get an error message like
> > this
> >
> > connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory
> > XIO: fatal IO error 131 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> > "SolarisHost:239.0"
> > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>
> I think I know what's going on here.
>
> The solution should be to use DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 instead, which means
> to
> connect to the X server for display 0 via TCP/IP, which the Xming X
> server
> should be listening on.
Nice idea, but the result is, that I just get a different error message.
Now it becomes:
connect localhost port 6000: Connection refused
X connection to SolarisHost:217.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
>From the FAQ, I see that port 6000 is the default. Could it be that I
need to specify somehow a non-standard port?
Ronald
--
Ronald Fischer <ronaldf@eml.cc>
+ If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
+ and the bus is interrupted and the interrupt's not caught,
+ then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
+ (cited after Peter van der Linden)
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