I think you hit the nail on the head earlier...I think you may need to do some funky nat stuff...I tried to do the same thing, but gave up after a few hours. Essentially, I was trying to ssh to a machine here at work from one of my workstations at home (1 is linux, 1 is nt, 1 is 2k)...none worked. The display variable is set automagically on the target machine. However, I don't think it could quite figure out how to go through the firewall on the way back... -----Original Message----- From: foodog@uswest.net [mailto:foodog@uswest.net] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:14 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Help with SSH2 and tunneling X? Kevin, what I'm trying to do would go something like this: from home: ssh workbox netscape & Since netscape's running on the remote machine (workbox) it needs to have a path to send the X output to my home subnet. It's not a matter of not having authorization to connect to my home machine's X server, I gave it that with xhost. Steve Kevin Buettner wrote: > On Jun 1, 4:33am, foodog@uswest.net wrote: > > > I'm on a quest to access machines at my work securely from > > home over a public VDSL connection. I'm sick of battling > > VTUN* so I've settled on tunneling X through SSH2. That > > works relatively dandy from my firewall but I'd much rather > > use my main box which is on my home subnet. > [...] > > You're making it way too complicated. > > Just install ssh on your main box on your home subnet and then ssh > to your machine at work. Since you have ipmasq working already, it > should work fine. (I do this all the time without problems.) > > There are times when you want to be able to use the display provided > for you from another machine. To do this, you'll have to use xauth. > See the xauth man page for more details. > > You may also wish to look into using VNC which'll allow you to connect > to an X session at work and not have it go away if you get > disconnected. (I'm not sure what kind of work you do, but I find it > useful for doing builds on remote machines.) > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss _______________________________________________ Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss