[NBLUG/talk] Tunneling X over ssh

[E Frank Ball]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:54:37AM -0700, orsini wrote:
} I'm trying to tunnel X between home and work. My situation
} has me hopping on a couple of machines inbetween. All linux
} boxes with a solaris box as one of the hops.
} 
} On each box type:
} 
} > ssh -X me at hop1 
} ...
} > ssh -X me at hop2 
} ...
} > ssh -X me at finalmachine
} 
} Then, when I run 'xeyes' on the destination box, I get this:
} 
} connect 127.0.0.1 port 6000: Connection refused 
} X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
} shutdown).
} Exit 1
} 
} On all machines /etc/ssh/sshd_config contains:
} X11Forwarding yes
} 
} I'm stumped. Any ideas?


On each box also make sure the X11 forwarding is set in
/etc/ssh/ssh_config (ssh not sshd).

Why are you hopping anyway?  If you can't make a direct connection one
way, but can from the other way, then you can setup an ssh tunnel from
one direction and connect to it from the other.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com