[Gllug] X forwarding

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:51 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:35 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > 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 $DISPLAY just gives me a blank.
> > > 
> > > If you add "-v" to your invocation of ssh then it will almost certainly
> > > tell you exactly why the forwarding is not happening.  It's probably the
> > > case that your target machine has:
> > > 
> > > X11Forwarding no
> > > 
> > 
> > No, I had fixed that already. It seems I am missing xauth on the remote
> > box and I cannot find the right package to install on the machine (xauth
> > exists for Ubuntu but doesn't seem to be knocking around in my Debian
> > set up)
> 
> john at bluebox:/var/lib$ apt-cache search xauth
> xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients
> xrsh - remote execution of XWindow programs
> xvfb - virtual framebuffer X server
> john at bluebox:/var/lib$ dpkg -S xauth
> xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
> xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.gz
> john at bluebox:/var/lib$
> 
> So it looks like the package which you need is xbase-clients
That's what I thought too, but it didn't seem to work. Removed and
reinstalled it and it does - but I also noticed the host didn't have a
proper /etc/hosts either and so fixed that

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