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Re: X Forwarding with ssh



On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:13:18PM -0400, Shaun ONeil wrote:
> I know I've done this plenty of times before, but this time it's just
> not playing ball. Any hints?
> 
> "desktop" Is Debian sid, with a display running on :0
> "server" is Debian woody, and headless (hence using ssh)
> 
> I've tried with and without passing -X to ssh, and I understand my
> entries in ssh_config should make it default anyhow. Forwarding is
> enabled on the server, and both machines have been rebooted through
> sheer desperation to make these changes take effect.
[...]
> ... and what relevant packages I have installed:
> 
> shaun@server:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep ^x
> xfree86-common                                  install
> xlibs                                           install

You need xbase-clients too for the xauth program. ssh suggests
xbase-clients as a hint.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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