Re: Cannot turn on X11 forwarding(the DISPLAY is not set on remote M)

From: Richard E. Silverman (slade@shore.net)
Date: 04/10/02


From: slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman)
Date: 10 Apr 2002 11:48:22 -0400


>>>>> "AP" == Alexander Podgorny <opidgornyy@kyiv.utel.com.ua> writes:

    AP> Hi. I'm trying to connect from a client machine with W2K (openssh
    AP> 3.1) to a Linux machine. On client: "ssh -X -l user
    AP> remote_machine"

    AP> Then I check $DISPLAY and don't find I set up to "locahost:10.0"

"ssh -v ..."

Remember that your local DISPLAY variable must be set before you run the
SSH client, so that it has an X server to talk to.

-- 
  Richard Silverman
  slade@shore.net