I messed up.... I forgot the 'X' option but now the error I get is X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Sorry about the mistake. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Now I did look into the man page and the 'X' option looked promising. the > first thing I tried was to open the file from 192.168.0.3 which was a shell > on 192.168.0.4 (I was on .4 sshing to .3 which was sshing to .4). Anyways > the response was: > > $ X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > But when I tried to open a text file from 192.168.0.3 with gedit (the file > resides on 192.168.0.4) the complaint it gave was: > > cannot open display > > So I figured the problem might be that the program wasn't installed. After > instaling gedit it gave the same error. So what am I doing wrong? > > :-)~MIKE~(-: >