On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:22 PM, zGreenfelder <zgreenfelder at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm a little lost as to wny you're using -XY; I'd expect either a -X > or a -Y option; not both. Mostly because neither worked separately either. > -Y Enables trusted X11 forwarding. Trusted X11 forwardings are not > subjected to the X11 SECURITY extension controls. And I don't have any idea what that means.... So I usually just use -Y. > > do you get error messages if you run xauth by hand? No, but now I see X-forwarding does work with other 6.x targets so it must be something else missing on this host. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com