Running X on a virtual dedicated server

[Jon M. Hanson]

If you're using ssh on that system then restarting sshd on that  
system will have no effect. The sshd demon accepts connections to  
your machine and has nothing to do with outgoing connections. That's  
why you can restart sshd and it didn't affect your outgoing ssh  
connection.

You might also need to do an "xhost +" to allow your X server to  
accept connections before your try to open up any X programs.
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On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:07 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:

> 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
>
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