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SSH & XFree86
- From: John Burkhart <johnny at hwr dot arizona dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:56:49 -0700 (MST)
- Subject: SSH & XFree86
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?),
I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine to access a remote Unix
system. My machine is behind a router, therefore when i run ssh with the
parameters : ssh -X -l username hostname
I get the follwing error:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Subsequently the remote machine gives me a "can't open display" error
whenever I try to run anything like xmgr or even and xterm on the remote
machine. Do I need to use port forwarding? If so, how do I do this? The
router has a public IP address, but the IP on my computer is invisible to
the WAN as far as I can tell.
Thank you, john