X-Terminal over SSH Woes

[Kenneth]

Same here. I don't remember the reason any more, but -Y instead of -X works
better for me.


--- Mike Garfias <mike at garfias.org> wrote:

> I've had better luck using ssh -Y
> try that.
> 
> On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
> > 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 $DISPLAY
> >
> > mark at stingray:~$ xeyes
> > Error: Can't open display:
> > 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!
> > -- 
> > Mark Phillips
> > Phillips Marketing, Inc
> > mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
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