[Gllug] X forwarding

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 07:11 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 20:39 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > I have a remote Debian box which I am connecting to thus:
> > 
> > ssh -X myname at IPADDR
> > 
> > But when I attempt to run any X based application I get...
> > 
> > E233: cannot open display
> > 
> > and typing echo $DISPLAY just gives me a blank.
> 
> If you add "-v" to your invocation of ssh then it will almost certainly
> tell you exactly why the forwarding is not happening.  It's probably the
> case that your target machine has:
> 
> X11Forwarding no
> 

No, I had fixed that already. It seems I am missing xauth on the remote
box and I cannot find the right package to install on the machine (xauth
exists for Ubuntu but doesn't seem to be knocking around in my Debian
set up)



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