[CentOS] Having difficulty exporting display

Thu Apr 18 20:57:39 UTC 2013
Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com>

You mean on the remote machine, yes?


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Yves S. Garret wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is my issue, my remote machine (CentOS 6.3, hosted in Azure windows
> > environment) has an application that I need to test on my local box
> > (CentOS 6.4, a laptop behind a router).
> >
> > Now, this is what I'm doing and the issue that I'm encountering:
> > Local:
> > $ xhost +
> > $ ssh -X someusername at somehostname.net -p 49283
> >
> > Remote:
> > $ export DISPLAY=192.168.1.6:0.0
> > $ xclock
> >
> > ... and nothing, it just sits there and no xclock shows up :( .  I'm
> > fairly convinced that this is due to my router, but I don't know how to
> deal
> > with it.  Any ideas?  Am I way off in my guess?
>
> Several thoughts, immediately: is the firewall open for it? Does the
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config have X11 forwarding enabled?
>
>         mark, rounding up the usual suspects
>
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