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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------