SSH X11 Forwarding...

ron.peterson at yellowbank.com ron.peterson at yellowbank.com
Mon May 26 13:31:13 EDT 2003


On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 01:35:22PM -0700, Wizard wrote:

> While we're discussing SSH, I'm trying to implement X11 Fowarding on a
> Solaris 9 box, but can't seem to get it working. I can set my display under
> telnet and X is redirected to my SGI box, but when I login using SSH, the
> server errors with something like "Can't find display: " and there is no
> display set. 1.) How do I set the display (I would guess 'setenv DISPLAY
> ip:disp', as in telnet), and more importantly, 2.) What do I set it to
> (obviously the IP won't work)?

Might have nothing to do w/ ssh, per se - it might be an X Window System
authorization issue.

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