complicated x over ssh question

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Cole Tuininga wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 09:57, David Kramer wrote:
> > Goal: I would like to fire up X applications on my home server, and have 
> > them come up on my work computer.  
> 
> I believe that so long as the remote system does not have anything in
> the startup environment (.profile, .bash*, etc) that explicitly sets the
> DISPLAY variable, it should be set by ssh automagically.
> 
> For instance, if I do the following:
> 
> ssh -X user at remotemachine
> 
> And the remote system has the X forwarding set up, then by default my
> display would be set to :10 which is a forwarded X connection.


OK, another PEBCAK error [0].  Sorry.
I neglected to mention that my work machine is a Windows XP box (don't 
start!), and I'm using cygwin for X and PuTTY for ssh.  I had to add the X 
forwarding options to PuTTY, then it worked.  I thought I only needed it 
on the server side.


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