X-Terminal over SSH Woes

[Craig White]

That is a 'feature' of gmail (to 'hide' your own postings). I think you
can change your settings if that 'feature' worries you.

Craig

On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 15:20 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> OT for this thread, but I wanted to say to Mark that I always find my
> own posts to the discussion list never seem to appear to me untill
> someone replaies to them.  I have frequently questioned whether I was
> doing something wrong or what.  Perhaps it is something about the
> email client or perhaps it is some dubious "feature" of the list.
> Wish I knew, because it is troubling when you are not sure if your
> post was ever received. 
> 
> On 8/25/06, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>         Thanks to everyone for their advice. I solved the problem by
>         editing the  /etc/ssh/sshd_conf file to enable X11Forwading. I
>         had only
>         edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config.
>         
>         It now works!
>         
>         Thanks again!
>         
>         Mark
>         
>         P.S. I posted a thank-you last night, but for some reason it
>         did not appear on
>         the list this morning, so I am posting again. (8/23)
>         
>         P.P.S I went back to my SSH book, and it did say ssh*D*_conf
>         was the file to 
>         edit. I guess I need to get some new glasses or read a little
>         slower!;-)
>         
>         P.P.P.S My postings seem to be dying before they get to the
>         list, so I will
>         try one more time. (8/25)
>         
>         Cheers!
>         
>         Mark
>         
>         On Thursday 24 August 2006 04:53 am, der.hans wrote:
>         > Am 23. Aug, 2006 schwätzte Mark Phillips so:
>         >
>         > > I cannot figure out what is wrong. Everything I have read
>         on the net and
>         in
>         > > O'Rreilly's SSH book say I am doing it right, but it
>         doesn't work! 
>         > >
>         > > Machine - monkey
>         > > Debian stable
>         > > /etc/ssh/ssh_config has
>         > >   ForwardX11 yes
>         > >   ForwardX11Trusted no
>         >
>         > debian defaults to ForwardX11Trusted set to yes. 
>         >
>         > > Machine - stingray
>         > > Debian stable
>         > > kde desktop is running
>         > > /etc/ssh/ssh_config has
>         > >   ForwardX11 yes
>         > >   ForwardX11Trusted no
>         > >
>         > > I can ssh from monkey to stingray (and vice versa)
>         > >
>         > > When I try ssh -X stingray from monkey, I get Error: Can't
>         open display.
>         > >
>         > > In debug mode, I see the following: 
>         > > debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive).
>         > > debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
>         > > debug1: Entering interactive session.
>         > > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication
>         spoofing. 
>         > > Linux stingray 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Tue Aug 16 12:46:35 UTC 2005
>         i686 GNU/Linux
>         > >
>         > > mark at stingray:~$ echo $DISPLAY
>         >
>         > stingray is the remote host in this situation, correct?
>         > 
>         > What do you have for DISPLAY on the localhost?
>         >
>         > Let us see the following scenerio:
>         >
>         > local:$ echo $DISPLAY
>         > :0.0
>         > local:$ ssh -X remote
>         > you at remote's password:
>         > .
>         > .
>         > remote:$ echo $DISPLAY
>         > localhost:10.0
>         >
>         > > mark at stingray:~$ xeyes
>         > > Error: Can't open display:
>         >
>         > Yup, not having DISPLAY set will do that to you :). 
>         >
>         > ciao,
>         >
>         > der.hans
>         >
>         > > mark at stingray:~$ exit
>         > > debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype
>         exit-status reply 0
>         > > logout
>         > > debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1 
>         > > Connection to stingray closed.
>         > > debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 32 bytes in
>         87.1 seconds
>         > > debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr
>         0.4
>         > > debug1: Exit status 1 
>         > >
>         > > FWIW, I can do "X -query stingray" from monkey and get the
>         gdm login
>         > > and my kde desktop from stingray to monkey.
>         > >
>         > > What am I doing wrong?
>         > > 
>         > > Thanks!
>         > >
>         >
>         > --
>         >
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>         
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