[SunHELP] X forwarding fails

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if you are trying to forward back to a client wouldn't your DISPLAY var
reflect the client as opposed to :0.0 ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:patrick.marquetecken at pandora.be]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:18 PM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] X forwarding fails


On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:58:45 -0400
"Markham, Richard" <RMarkham at hafeleamericas.com> wrote:

> try:
>  XAUTHORITY=`ps -aef | grep '[X]sun' | sed 's/.* //'`
>  export XAUTHORITY
>  DISPLAY=:0
>  export DISPLAY
>  /usr/openwin/bin/xhost +

no error, i see with ps -ef its running but its not visible anyware !!!

Patrick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Marquetecken [mailto:patrick.marquetecken at pandora.be]
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:57 PM
> To: SUNhelp
> Subject: [SunHELP] X forwarding fails
> 
> 
> When i execute /usr/openwin/bin/perfmeter in a SSH session i get this
error
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: :0 (Server package)
> 
> my sshd_config contains:
> X11Forwarding yes
> X11DisplayOffset 10
> X11UseLocalhost yes
> 
> Patrick



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