[CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem
Keith Roberts
keith at karsites.net
Fri Aug 6 12:49:30 UTC 2010
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:05, Simon Billis <simon at houxou.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis <simon at houxou.com> wrote:
>>> > Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf
>>> >
>>> > Rgds
>>> >
>>> > Simon
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> Thanks, Simon, it appears so:
>>>
>>> [root at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep
>>> X11Forwarding
>>> #X11Forwarding no
>>> X11Forwarding yes
>>>
>>> The SSH server (and the machine itself) had been reset since that
>>> change has been made, of course.
>> Having reread your OP - try running nautilus without the display setting at
>> the end (it's superfluous considering that you have a exported the display
>> variable) as you had a typo in the incatation or replace the ":" with a "."
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> S.
>>
>>
>
> Still no luck:
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus
> cannot open display:
> Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0.0
> cannot open display: 0.0
> Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
> [user at CentOS-55-32-minimal ~]$
Hi Dotan.
Give me a temporary login (sent directly via email) as
user at CentOS-55-32-minimal, and I'll see if I can login and
run Nautilus from here.
Are there any other X apps that you can run on the remote
box that will work over ssh -X ?
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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