From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 8:30:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D73537B401 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C21A43FAF for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:30:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wythe001@tc.umn.edu) Received: from q1d0p9 (c-24-118-56-18.mn.client2.attbi.com[24.118.56.18]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with SMTP id <2003021216304400300np6lne>; Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:30:44 +0000 Reply-To: From: "Kirk R. Wythers" To: , Cc: Subject: RE: running an x app remotely via ssh Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:30:49 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <000301c2d2b4$1a86e6f0$12387618@q1d0p9> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <20030212092430.B4033@asu.edu> 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 -----Original Message----- From: David Bear [mailto:David.Bear@asu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:25 AM To: kwythers@umn.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running an x app remotely via ssh On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:14:13AM -0600, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > I am able to log into my office machine (5.0-RELEASE) with ssh from home > just fine. However when I attempt to start an X-app (with putty), I get > the error: > > lorax: [/etc/ssh] $ evolution & > [1] 674 > lorax: [/etc/ssh] $ Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken > (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > What did I miss? I have a fragment of a memory about adding my home > machine to some file somewhere on my office box in order for my home did you have an X server running on your home machine when you shell into your office machine? The home machine is an winxp box (putty is a win32 client) also, when using ssh I need to use -X at the end of the command line to instruct it to tunnel X. don't know about putty. -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message