FC3T2: Remote X11 connections not working over SSH

Daryl Herzmann akrherz at iastate.edu
Wed Oct 6 17:42:11 UTC 2004


Howdy,

I upgraded my laptop from FC1 to FC3T2 and can't seem to get remote X11 
connections to work over SSH.  The remote machines are RHEL WS3 boxen.

mylaptop$ ssh -X remotehost

remotehost$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:16.0
remotehost$ xclock  # We just hang  here
<cntrl-c>
remotehost$ logout

mylaptop$ xhost +remotehost
mylaptop$ ssh remotehost

remotehost$ setenv DISPLAY mylaptop:0
remotehost$ xclock   # Yeah!, I see xclock on my desktop


Sooooooo, what the devil am I doing wrong?  I have been using SSH-X11 
connections for 7 some years now, so I don't think I am doing anything 
newbie ish?  (perhaps I am! :) )

thanks,
   daryl




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