Can't run x things over ssh link

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Jan 30 01:04:04 UTC 2007


On Monday 29 January 2007 18:33, P Jones wrote:
>Gene;
>
>On 1/29/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I have a kubuntu box out in the workshop that I normally admin either
>> from its own keyboard or from here over an ssh link.  Then I installed
>> FC6 on this box.
>>
>> Now the various graphical stuff fails with a can't determine display
>> message.  I just checked in the /etc/ssh/ssh_config, and in
>> the /etc/ssh/sshd_config files on that box and 'X11Forwarding yes' is
>> present in both files, so its apparently something on this end.
>>
>> What do I enable, in what file, what it takes to restore this
>> functionality with FC6 that worked so nicely in FC2?
>
>Try the -Y option, as in "ssh -vY -lusername boxinworkshop.domain.com .
>
>-P

Worked like a champ, thanks.

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