complicated x over ssh question

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:57:17AM -0400, David Kramer wrote:
> Goal: I would like to fire up X applications on my home server, and have 
> them come up on my work computer.  
> 
> The work computer, of course, has a non-routable ethernet address.
> 
> I have X forwarding on.
> [david at uni ~]$ grep -i forward /etc/ssh/ssh_config
> #   ForwardAgent no
> ForwardAgent yes
> #   ForwardX11 no
> ForwardX11 yes
> #ForwardX11Trusted yes
> 
> How do I set the DISPLAY in my ssh session if the IP address of my work 
> computer is not routable?

work$ ssh -X home.machine.domain xterm &

This should cause an xterm from your home machine to appear on
your work machine's display. If it doesn't, what errors are you
getting? Try -vvv for maximum verbosity.

-dsr-