Re: [Sheflug] Firewall config - for Ross.

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 06:04:06PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> firewall), but if IIRC, if you can get ssh through, you can get X.

Kinda.

You're on client A, probably sitting in X. Open up xterm. 'echo $DISPLAY'
should be something obvious.

ssh place-im-going -X

So, we shush in. If you're like me, you get an xauth error (my X install
sucks btw :( ). But, hopefully you won't :). 'echo $DISPLAY'. This should be
less obvious - something like "place-im-going:10.0" (without quotes,
obviously). If not, it aint'nt going to work.

So, that should be it. Except - you may get 'wrong authentication'. In which
case, you need to xauth merge, or xhost +stuff, or similar. I don't have
either xauth or xhost on my machine .. wierd. But probably yours is setup
better than mine :) 

Cheers,

Alex.

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