Date: 19 Apr 2001 14:17:35 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>, <rseals@vdsi.net>, 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD as an X workstation - Not sure how to word question Message-ID: <m14rvlt4eo.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104190857270.64280-100000@www.stelesys.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0104190857270.64280-100000@www.stelesys.com>
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Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> writes: > I just tried this. On my local machine I typed > > xhost +addressofremotemachine > ssh -X remotemachine -l myname > > xv test.jpg > > And I get the following error: > > % xv test.jpg > channel 0: istate 4 != open > channel 0: ostate 64 != open > X connection to eeyore1:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > > Do I need to do something else? > My local machine is behind a firewall. Sounds like your Xauthority is not set correctly.... Make sure that the bashrc or .profile on the machine that you are sshing to does not explicitly set the XAUTHORITY environment variable. ssh should set this for you, and it should look something like waynep@marvin:~$ env | grep -i auth XAUTHORITY=/tmp/ssh-XX8KSgy5/cookies -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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