Running X on a virtual dedicated server

[Bryan O'Neal]

True, this is what I want, however I edited /etc/ssh/ssh_config and
uncommented and changed the lines ForwardX11 yes and ForwardX11Trusted
yes.  I pondered why PasswordAuthentication yes was commented but
ignored this saved the file and restarted sshd.  Logged out and logged
back in.  I also wounded why I could restart sshd without being logged
out, but again ignored this.  However when I try to launch konqueror I
get "cannot connect to X server"  That is when I started trying to start
X

I am connecting using ssh -X user at ip

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ted
Gould
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 8:49 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Cc: Arizona State University Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: Running X on a virtual dedicated server

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 18:37 -0700, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> As many of you know, I like my GUI tools.  And I just purchased a 
> virtual server from GoDaddy, but when I try to run an X app I get the 
> generic error of cannot connect to X server.  If I look at ps -A I see

> xinted running.  If I try to startx I get
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.5195 (or some 
> randum number)
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): no server "X" in PATH

I think you're confused at what you want.  You don't want X running on
that computer, you want the programs to display on your X server running
on your machine.  Try connecting like this:

ssh -X -Y -C myhost.com

That opens up X tunneling, sets the forward file, and does a little
compression for you too.

Some SSH servers aren't set up to support X tunneling by default, you
may need to enable it in /etc/ssh/ssh_config

		--Ted