From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 16:21:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web9708.mail.yahoo.com (web9708.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.128.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2813937B419 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:21:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020318002107.41822.qmail@web9708.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [141.154.38.211] by web9708.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:21:07 PST Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:21:07 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Gatsoulis Reply-To: pg@eth1.com Subject: ssh -X forwarding fails To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I hav been bangin my head w/this 1. 2 fbsd 4.5 machines, call them work and home. Both can run XFree86 locally I'm trying to get the work machine's desktop to display remotely on my home machine. On my work machine I have sshd_config as it should be with X11Forwarding YES and X11DisplayOffset 10 I do ssh -X someip to get to work machine. I then do startx or startx -listen_tcp failing with: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "zelo.verizon.net:0" in "remove" command I suspect this has something to do w/ xauth or display variables NOT being set. I have removed .Xauthority files from both local & remote directories w/ no effect. also doing "env" shows me that there IS NO "DISPLAY" variable present in either the remote or local machines. I suspect this is the problem??? How is this set correctly? Both machines are on private LANs behind firewalls, both are in the 192.168.x.x ranges. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message