running x through ssh

[Michael Havens]

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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~(-:
>
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