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From: Peter Gatsoulis <kjerstes@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: pg@eth1.com
Subject: Re: ssh -X forwarding fails
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Hi Thanx for responding

I guess i should explain just a bit further.
I have the remote X working fine if I ssh -X from
inside my local FBSD X desktop to the remote FBSD
system.

But I didn't want to just run individual X apps

what I wanted to do was start the whole X desktop on
my system but it'd really be the remote desktop I was
seeing..
Is this possible w/ the "startx" or "startx
-listen_tcp" commands?

I now am setting the DISPLAY variables correctly but
the startx and xinit and XFree86 man pages say that
this DISPLAY variable is "set and not read".

Thanx again
--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800, Peter
> Gatsoulis wrote:
> 
> > 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???
> 
> Yep.  You have to set DISPLAY to the correct value
> before ssh'ing,
> otherwise ssh has no idea which display you want X
> traffic forwarded
> to.  It should usually be something like ":0.0" to
> indicate the
> primary local display, but it doesn't always have to
> be.


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