Re: ssh

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Oki DZ <okidz@pindad.com> writes:

What does 'echo $DISPLAY' say on okidz when you start?

> okidz@okidz:~$ ssh bdg2
> Linux bdg 2.4.18-evms-lkcd #1 Thu Dec 19 10:03:08 WIT 2002 i686 unknown 
> unknown GNU/Linux
> ...
> okidz@bdg:~$ echo $DISPLAY
> localhost:10.0
> okidz@bdg:~$ xterm
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
>
> Should I tinker with xauth, xhost, etc.?

You almost certainly don't want to use xhost.  In theory, ssh should
do the right magic with xauth.  Does 'ssh -v bdg2' say anything
informative?  Do you have xbase-clients (or really, an xauth binary,
if the other machine isn't a Debian machine) installed on bdg?

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