Do I need an xserver running on my windows box? That may be my problem. If so, could someone suggest one. I did a quick search and I found several that you have to pay for.
--Todd
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Sean O'Connell Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:02 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] X11 forwarding
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 12:55 -0500, Todd Reed wrote:
I need to enable forward the xWindows through my SSH session, but I'm having trouble. I'm using Putty and I've configured it to allow enable x11 forwarding through the ssh tunnel. I've also edited the /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set X11Forwarding yes. After doing this, it's not working. I'm sure there's quite a bit not doing. Could anybody offer any guidance? This is my first attempt to do this.
Todd-
What errors are you getting when try to launch an X application? Are you running an X server on your windows machine?
Have you restarted sshd since changing sshd_config?
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:10 -0500, Todd Reed wrote:
Do I need an xserver running on my windows box? That may be my problem. If so, could someone suggest one. I did a quick search and I found several that you have to pay for.
maybe ... are you trying to display X applications on you windows box ... if so, you need to have an xserver.
another option is to run nx / freenx server on your linux box and connect to it via the nx client:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
You can install nx with:
yum install nx freenx
and get the windows client from nomachine.org (see the above link)
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:10 -0500, Todd Reed wrote:
Do I need an xserver running on my windows box? That may be my problem. If so, could someone suggest one. I did a quick search and I found several that you have to pay for.
--Todd
Yes. You need to running an X server. I believe that (gnu) cygwin has a free version of XFree86/Xorg server that comes with it. I think there was an ancient one by mix or something like that. Does your university have any under site license? When I worked at Duke, they had a site license for the X-win32 product from starnet (www.starnet.com).
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 14:10, Todd Reed wrote:
Do I need an xserver running on my windows box? That may be my problem. If so, could someone suggest one. I did a quick search and I found several that you have to pay for.
--Todd
Note my earlier response. cygwin provides an X server you can run under Windows and is, last I checked, freely available.
You can also setup ssh tunneling with putty and run vnc over that to your linux system. Have used that in the past and it works very well.
But if you want X11 forwarding you need an X server.
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