[SWLUG] x forwarding config

[Ciaran Anscomb]

bascule wrote:
> i would appreciate some help getting the above to work, i wish to use my main
>  
> box -mycroft, to run progs on another box -watson and display them on mycroft
> ,
> [...]
> i start a konsole in kde on mycroft and ssh into watson with:
> $ssh -X watson
> i pass the pass and run startx
> i get:
> [bascule at watson ssh]$ startx
> 
> Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> Perhaps you do not have console ownership?giving up.
> xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111):  unable to connect to X server
> xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.
> Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
> [bascule at watson ssh]$
> 
> so, what am i missing?

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You need to start an X server locally (on mycroft) before you run other
programmes on watson.  If you want to run the entire session (apart from
the actual server - that needs to be local) remotely, look into XDMCP:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/

..ciaran
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