[ale] can't connect to X / can't auto connect nfs

[cfowler]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:12, Jason Day wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:35:48AM -0500, cfowler wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:54, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> > > 1. I am very used to sshing to another box, and then running programs.
> > > Unfortunately, I have never been able to get it to work between my Suse box 
> > > and the other boxes. When I try to run a program this way, it says "can't 
> > > connect to X" as if I am a different user or something.
> > 
> > 1) On the box that has the ssh client, issue command 'xhost +'
> 
> Besides being a security risk, this is unnecessary.  SSH will forward
> the user's xauth cookie (normally contained in the file
> $HOME/.Xauthority) when the user connects to the remote host.  This
> requires that the ssh client machine is using xauth (most recent distros
> do) and that the sshd process on the server machine can find the xauth
> executable.

Not on Cygwin.  xhost +<remote> is required. 



> 
> > 2) When sshing to remote use 'ssh -CX2 user at remote'
> > 
> > Once you get logged in, type xterm and see if you get and xterm on your
> > desktop
> 
> If you don't, try this:
>    ssh -v -v -v user at remote
> 
> This will print out lots of ugly debug information.  You should see that
> it's trying to forward X in there, as well as any errors.
> 
> Jason
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