On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com> wrote: > In the past, on previous installations, I could ssh to the bacula server with the -X option, and run the application (called 'bat'), and it would display back. I'd have to make sure the sshd_config permits Xforwarding, but that was all. > > On my new CentOS 6.4 minimal, I always get: > > bat: cannot connect to X server > > I tried the usual tricks of exporting the display to my system where I want to see the GUI, which shouldn't be necessary anyway due to the 'ssh -X', but I thought I'd give it a shot. Still no go. You've probably already checked, but does the sshd_config deny X11 forwarding? Did you allow the remote via xhost on your local X server? Does your desktop require x11 magic cookies or other auth mechanism? > > I figured something was missing, since it is a minimal install, with no X. So I installed 'xlogo', thinking maybe all the X stuff needed to display that would be installed. By installing xlogo, I got a bunch of X stuff, including: You can test by temporarily installing tigervnc-server on the remote and connecting. If you can run it there it should work remotely.