[CentOS] remote ssh to machine how display firefox

Jerry Geis wrote:

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/ I can ssh into a remote machine.

/>/ I can start X on that machine with startx />/ />/ How do I then start firefox on that machine (from the ssh prompt) and />/ have it display on my machine in my office. />/ />/ So I want to be using firefox on the remote machine but displaying the />/ screen output from firefox in my office. />/ Both boxes are running centos 5. / don't startx on the REMOTE machine, have it running on the LOCAL machine.

local$ ssh -X remote ...authenticate... remote$ firefox &

and firefox should open on the local...

I tried the above (without the &) and firefox just returns.

I looked at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and X11Forwarding is yes.

Jerry