Putty + AIX + X11 forwarding

dba2adm_at_yahoo.com
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 10:13:45 -0800

Dear All,

I have Xmanager running on my PC as the X-Server and Putty as my ssh
client for my AIX server. I have "enable X11 forwarding" under "SSH"
-> "Tunnels" and has the "X display location" as "localhost:0". I even
tried to set the value same as the IP of my local PC.

When I connect to the AIX machine using putty, I don't see the DISPLAY
variable set.

I could set the DISPLAY to my pc's ip address on the ssh session on
AIX by "export DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0" then I am able to run X-
programs. If I set the DISPLAY on the AIX session to
"DISPLAY=localhost:0", I get "Error: Can't open display: localhost:0"

Could anyone please suggest how will I correct the issue? I want the
DISPLAY to be set without me doing "export DISPLAY=xx.xx.xx.xx:n",
when I invoke the client using putty.

I am using putty 0.52

Thanks.

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