Re: PuTTY to OpenSSH via Exceed

From: Richard Silverman (res@des.jhy.us.ml.com)
Date: 03/26/02 

From: Richard Silverman <res@des.jhy.us.ml.com>
Date: 26 Mar 2002 15:31:57 -0500

>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Myers <bh_ent@hotmail.com> writes:

    Drew> My question is, I can't get the X11 forwarding to work. I've
    Drew> read numerous documentation on this, but I seem to be missing
    Drew> something.

    Drew> I can launch an xterm, but I can't seem to launch sam (brrrr),
    Drew> or any of the other GUIs (some of my apps ONLY offer GUIs, the
    Drew> SOBs).

You say that X forwarding doesn't work, but then you say that you "can
launch an xterm" -- implying that it *does* work, at least for that
client.

When X forwarding works for some programs but not others, it's often due
to a problem finding the xauth cookie. E.g. a program which does an "su
root" as part of its operation will end up looking at root's .Xauthority
file, not yours. Another possible problem are differing statically linked
versions of Xlib which try access the display in the wrong manner
(e.g. using a unix-domain socket instead of TCP). 

-- 
 Richard Silverman
 slade@shore.net