[geeks] X11 forwarding over ssh: hostname resolution

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 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.

Like I said, I use:

ssh -c blowfish -C -X powerhouse.ikickass.org

which doesn't work.

Peace...  Sridhar