Re: Question on tunneling X

From: Betelgeux (betelgeuse68@yahoo.com)
Date: 03/05/03 

From: Betelgeux <betelgeuse68@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 07:18:23 GMT

You should not explicitly set the display environment variable. After
reaching your SSH gateway, or portal as you call, simply use ssh with
the "-X" parameter and the X packets will be propagated all the way back
to the originating point.

Of course I'm assuming you have your X server running properly there. At
which point things will be displayed as they should.

If you look at your environment variables, DISPLAY will have been set.
There's no need to muck with it yourself when tunneling X packets with SSH.

-M

B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
> How do I tunnel X from a machine on a LAN out through an SSH portal. To
> clarify my question here is what I need to do
>
> ssh -X portal_machine
> rlogin target
> setenv DISPLAY ????
> xemacs

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