Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:41:22 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>, Terry Todd <tlt@badger.tltodd.com> Subject: Re: ssh X11 forwarding not working on FreeBSD 6.2 Message-ID: <200707241641.25771.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200707241939.32157.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> References: <20070724105922.A29729@badger.tltodd.com> <200707241939.32157.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Pollywog wrote: > On Tuesday 24 July 2007 15:59:22 Terry Todd wrote: > > I have installed Xming successfully on a Windows XP system. > > It works OK to a FC6 system and an older UNIXware system. > > > > However when trying to connect to a FreeBSD 6.2 system with PuTTY > > ssh it doesn't work. PuTTY has Enable X11 forwarding checked. > > When I saw this post, I thought it was mine, because I am having > the same problem, but only in FreeBSD and not Linux and my > configurations on both are very much the same (for sshd). > > I am also unable to use port forwarding in vnc (fbsd 6.2) but I am > not certain whether this is related to the X11 Forwarding issue or > if it is something unrelated. SSH complains that it cannot use the > designated port (I have tried different ports. > > BTW I can do SSH port forwarding from my fbsd computer (client) to > Linux (server) but cannot do this from Linux to fbsd. > > I changed > X11DisplayOffset 10 > to > X11DisplayOffset 1 > > as mentioned in another post in this thread but that did not help. > Is tcp listening still off by default on FreeBSD? Last time I tried to do anything with remote X (which was ages ago) I had to find the goo that was disabling it, I think it was tcp nolisten or something in the startx script. Mind you we are talking FBSD 4.x here, but the errors seem very familiar. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGpnIFJvkB8SevrssRApV1AJsFY5+oGQdIBeCn/y3lChewYQValwCfYS7n MpQTDIFrtarqKaWLnBo7Kq8= =4qwH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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