6 Feb
2004
6 Feb
'04
01:36
On Friday 06 February 2004 02.18, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm not sure where/why I'm failing but...
I have /etc/ssh/sshd_conf entery of: X11Forwarding yes (which is the default config, as is everything else)
When I try to run X-based programs from another PC's ssh session, I get errors like:
cannot connect to X server Can't open display:
I'm probably missing some little variable somewhere, but heavens know if I can find it.
Is the other machine a linux? Are you using ssh -X to log in? It sounds like the programs aren't trying to use ssh based X forwarding but rather regular X connections, this is usually because you didn't use the -X flag to ssh