--- Barry Schiffman <schiffo2000 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net> wrote: > > > James A. Peltier wrote: > > > I'm having problems with ssh.com and X11 > > forwarding > > > > > > ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.2.0 (non-commercial > > version) on i686-pc-linux-gnu > > > > > > I am in the process of testing some of my > machines > > with CentOS 5 > > > x86/x86_64 and have run into a bit of a snag. > X11 > > Forwarding is not > > > working. > > > > > > Any hints? I've checked the ssh config files > and > > they seem to be > > > identical to the config files on our existing > SuSE > > 10.0 machines which > > > are working. This is troubling indeed. > > > > > > > > > > ssh -v and see what the ssh client complains > about. > > I just installed CentOS 5.0 on one machine here and > have a similar problem. I haven't changed the config > file from what was installed, and it looks pretty > much > like the config in CentOS 4.5. > > I've got openssh-4.3p2-16.el5 on the CentOS 5.0 > machine, and have tried to get X11 forwarding > working > on connections from three machines with different > os's > -- centos 4.5, ubuntu and Mac OS. > > ssh -v doesn't seem to say anything out of the > ordinary. After authentication, it says: > > Entering interactive session. > Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication > spoofing. > > Trying to open an emacs window without a -d > argument, > I get a message about no address for localhost:6010. > > Supplying the -d argument, I get > Xlib: connection to "xxx:0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified. > > Barry > I should've tried this before writing. If I set the environment variable DISPLAY in the xterm after making the ssh connection, it works. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the hottest 2008 models today at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.html