[NBLUG/talk] Tunneling X over ssh

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Sat Apr 10 18:16:50 PDT 2004


On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 05:25:48PM -0700, sms at sonic.net wrote:
} 
} Do you have "Xhost" & "$DISPLAY" set on the hosts?  I've never done

with X11 forwarding turned on do NOT set the $DISPLAY variable.
xhost doesn't matter.

} "hops" this way, only with the 2 start/end boxes, so I'm not sure
} what/if you need to do in the middle.  Is X running everywhere it
} needs to be?

X only needs to be running on your display.  The host running the
process doesn't have to have X running.


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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com




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