[ale] can't connect to X / can't auto connect nfs

[Jonathan Glass]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:16, Jason Day wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:22:20AM -0500, cfowler wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:12, Jason Day wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:35:48AM -0500, cfowler wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > 1) On the box that has the ssh client, issue command 'xhost +'
> > > 
> > > Besides being a security risk, this is unnecessary.  SSH will forward
> > > the user's xauth cookie (normally contained in the file
> > > $HOME/.Xauthority) when the user connects to the remote host.  This
> > > requires that the ssh client machine is using xauth (most recent distros
> > > do) and that the sshd process on the server machine can find the xauth
> > > executable.
> > 
> > Not on Cygwin.  xhost +<remote> is required. 
> 
> What X server?  Is this documented behavior with cygwin?  Do you also
> have to set the DISPLAY variable on the remote?  If so, then the X
> traffic is not being tunneled through ssh; you might as well use telnet.
> 
> It's been a while since I was forced to use w2k, but I don't remember
> having to use xhost with cygwin+OpenSSH+XFree86.
> -- 
> Jason Day                                       jasonday at
> http://jasonday.home.att.net                    worldnet dot att dot net
>  

When you setup your SSH client (putty, SSH) you have to set "X11
Forwarding" to true/on/whatever.  Do this, start Cygwin's XFree86, then
connect via ssh, and as long as the server is set to allow X-11
forwarding over SSH (see my earlier email), it should work.  I do this
all the time.

thanks
-- 
Jonathan Glass
Systems Support Specialist II
Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Georgia Institute of Technology
404.385.0127

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