Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
Hello, Here is a question about something I thought should work all by itself, but doesn't. Logging in remotely through ssh and have the programs running on the remote machine display on the local X server. I went into /etc/ssh/ssh_config and set ForwardX11 to yes on the remote machine I tried running ssh with the -X option.
That should be enough AFAIK.
I told portsentry to not worry about the 6000 port (on the local machine).
X forwarding happens on port 6000 + offset, which usually starts at 10. So make it not worry about 6010 instead. This is the machine with the X client, so the ssh server.
Only thing that is missing is the X configurations that tells X, on the local machine, to take in connections. It seems that Debian calls startx with the --nolisten option by default. How do I turn that off and tell it to listen?
That is not a problem. ssh X forwarding lets the X connection be sent to the local host (where you are logged into with ssh), the traffic is then tunneled through the encrypted connection, and it connects locally to the X server. You can see this by the DISPLAY variable, which is set to localhost:10 (or some higher number).
I looked through the XF86Config-4 config file but did not see anything useful...
If you want remote connections directly to the X server, you need to be in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf (I think, could be some other file in that dir). Bye, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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