techlists at comcast.net wrote: > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> > >> n Wed, 2007-10-10 at 02:14 +0000, techlists at comcast.net wrote: >> >>> I have a CentOS server at home and want to view the X display on a laptop >>> >> running Ubuntu, and not having much success. >> >>> Here's what's been tried so far: >>> >>> I ran this command on the CentOS server: >>> >>> export DISPLAY=192.168.0.18:0.0 >>> >> ssh -X -Y centos >> >> xclock & >> > > I tried that and am getting this error message. Just ran an nmap scan on 192.168.0.18 and the X server port doesn't appear to be open. How is that enabled? > > connect 192.168.0.18 port 6000: Connection refused > its tunnneld from localhost via SSH you don't mess with setting DISPLAY at all, the ssh -X session should do that for you, DISPLAY will be set to something like... $ echo $DISPLAY localhost:11.0 [where the :11 will be different for each ssh session]