Problems forwarding X over ssh

[Jeff Vian]

Jack Bowling wrote:

>On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:47PM -0700, Aaron Matteson wrote:
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>>Peter W Beninate became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
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>>>William Hooper wrote:
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>>>>Michael Marsh said:
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>>>>>Really strange.... but it seems like it is sort of
>>>>>working... just not forwarding what I would
>>>>>get if I were physically sitting at the terminal.
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>>>>This has never been how X forwarding works.  Perhaps you are confusing it
>>>>with VNC?
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>>>I have heard of people tunneling X through ssh, but have never done it 
>>>myself.
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>>I do this all the time like so:
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>>ssh -CX username at host application
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>>But i generally just open up a terminal and ssh to the host and enter
>>the application name, example. gedit and it is forwarded to my local
>>machine.
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>With the proviso that the host must have permission to attach to your box,
>otherwise the connection will be denied.
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There is one thing that was not explained in any of the documentation I 
was able to find for doing that.
I had already checked all the settings on the host and was able to get 
ssh to work but the -X option never gave me the forwarding as expected.

I use cygwin at work on a Win2K box to connect and had fought this off 
and on for several days.  Then, even though not stated explicitly 
anywhere I found, I decided to "startx" on the cygwin client before 
doing the "ssh -XC username at host".  That was the final piece, and it 
works now flawlessly.

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