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Re: Can't connect help
- To: "Tom Dillon" <tdillon at dilloneng dot com>
- Subject: Re: Can't connect help
- From: Andrew Markebo <flognat at flognat dot myip dot org>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 08:51:38 +0200
- Cc: cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20010930.304053@mis.configured.host>
If you are using ssh and want the connection to go over ssh, use "ssh
-X remote" (in a xterm) to let ssh do the hard work for you.
If everything is correctly setup, you don't need to set the display,
do a echo $DISPLAY on the remote machine to see if ssh has set it.
/Andy
/ "Tom Dillon" <tdillon@dilloneng.com> wrote:
| I am having trouble connecting via xfree.
|
| >From cygwin I am trying to connect to a Linux system and am doing the
| following:
|
| cygwin> xhost remote.host.name
| cygwin> ssh remote.host.name
|
| I then log in.
|
| Then on remote
|
| remote> DISPLAY xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0.0
| remote> export DISPLAY
| remote> xterm&
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