[vox-tech] X11 on remote machine

[Doug Huckaba]

Yesterday, Robin Snyder wrote:

> I recently upgraded to Debian's woody distribution and can no longer
> forward X11 info. when I'm logged into a remote machine via ssh.
> Here's the situation:
> 
> logged on remotely to my account on another machine.  I want to send it's
> X output to my screen.  On my machine, I used xhost +theothermachine to
> give it permission, then, once logged in, used setenv DISPLAY
> my_IP:0 to switch the display to my screen.  No go.  It's not a
> case of doubly assigned or incorrect IP numbers--I can ssh back into my
> machine using that IP.  When I try to start emacs, I get
> 
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> 
> and when I try to run mathtematica, I get
> 
> connect 169.237.66.157 port 6000: Connection refused
> connect 169.237.66.157 port 6000: Connection refused
> X connection to localhost:14.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I get these errors when my local x server isn't running or is broke. I use 
Humming bird quite a bit from a company win2k laptop. I'm also 
experimenting with cygwin X.

Perhaps it's a silly question, but is you local X in good working order? 
Also I notice that the error above shows it trying to connect to 
lcoalhost:14.0, are you srue you set DISPLAY= correctly? 

HTH
-doug

> 
> I realized that ssh has changed some between distributions (ssh now =
> OpenSSH) and that now ForwardX11 is set to no in ssh_d.config.  I tried
> switching that to yes.  I also tried ssh with the -X option, which should
> allow X11 forwarding.  None of these worked.  Ideas?
> 
> 			- robin.
> 
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