[SWLUG] x forwarding config

bascule excession at bigfoot.com
Sat Jun 1 16:48:22 UTC 2002


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,

on watson sshd_config has this bit:
----snip-----
X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#KeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
-----snip-------
for what it's worth ssh_config has:
---snip
Host *
  ForwardX11 yes
  Cipher blowfish
  Protocol 2,1
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
---snip----

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?

bascule
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