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Looks like it was working all along. I guess what I was expecting was the ability to see the entire remote desktop in X and then select from there.
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On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:50, Grant Young wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Have you tried running an X client like xclock on the RH server to see</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>if it works? The way its supposed to work (and has for me almost every</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>time) is the the DISPLAY environment variable on your RH machine</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>(technically in X it's the client) will be something like libranet:10</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>and so when you start an X client it should pipe the X protocol through</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the SSH pipe to your Libranet machine (which is the X server) which</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>should do the appropriate X stuff. If it doesn't work usually it's</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>because the client can't find the server (bad DNS or IP addresses) or</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the DISPLAY environment variable isn't set right.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:33, Tom Lopolito wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> My server is RH 9.0 running sshd. I can ssh into it from my laptop</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> running Debian Libranet but can't figure out how to get X running on</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> the client. The parameter in the sshd_conf file for XForwarding is set</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> to yes on trhe sever. The similar value on the ssh_conf file is also</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> set to yes. </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> -tom </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I></FONT></FONT></I></PRE>
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