[geeks] X11 forwarding over ssh: hostname resolution

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 @ 10:37 -0500, Michael Parson said:

> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:34:59AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > I have never been able to get X11 forwarding working on Cygwin, myself.
> > 
> > The display variable never gets set on the remote side.
> 
> Odd.
> 
> Never had a problem with it myself, use it on occasion myself, but
> usually I do the ssh sessions from an xterm rather than from the cmd
> window running bash.  Putty does the right thing with cygwin's X11 too.

One thing you try when this happens on a UNIX X11 server is this:

% ssh -X <hostname>

...because -X forces X11 forwarding.

If that works, then the problem is your ssh client is not seeing the
ForwardX11 option, or a rule which turns it off matches instead.


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