Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine [SOLVED]

[Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au>]

Grant Edwards wrote:
>> However, the usual way to use remote X-based programs is just to let
>> SSH do that. It can provide a tunnel for X. This is especially easy if
>> the remote SSH server daemon has set its "X11Forwarding" configuration
>> setting set to "yes" (otherwise, it is really a bit harder and not
>> suggested). Then, you just would connect using "ssh -X user@host" and
>> that's it, SSH will care for creating a socket on the remote machine
>> and set the DISPLAY variable accordingly.
> 
> NB: I've found that using -Y instead of -X can speed up some
>     applications by a factor of 50 or more.
> 

	Thank you all for your responses, although, due to me not initially 
providing all of the needed info, some peoples responses were not valid. 
My problem was I had to forward from an 8 year old SUN server, with no 
keyboard or monitor to my linux box. It's running Sunos5.? and DOES NOT 
have SSH - grrrr!!! Only telnet!!!!!

	Between the replies I got and and more Googling, I had to:

telnet into the SUN box.

On the SUN box export the DISPLAY system variable with it pointing to my 
machine.

Tell the linux box default xorg window manager and then kdm, when I 
subsequently installed it, to not ignore tcp ie comment out the 
"-nolisten tcp" config variable.

Couldn't get xauth to work so I used xhost to tell my machine to accept 
the connection from the Sun server.

Fired up the CAD system from the telnet login and hey presto, 
MicroStation on my linux box.

	Sounds simple but the amount of stuffing around I had to do before it 
eventually worked....probably best left unsaid. Anyway, thanks to all 
for the help and here's hoping I get access to SSH the next time I have 
to do anything like this.

	Regards,
		Andrew
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