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Re: Tunneling does not seem to work here (newbie)?
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Boris wrote:
> Well, I also have problems with this, and although it is probably not a bug
> report,
My bad. Should've said "problem report"... Sorry.
> I was unable to resolve the following two issues by reading
> documentation.
>
> 1. Sometime ago, in some old version of cygwin (I apologise for not
> being able to tell you which one exactly) I was able to display a window
> from another machine by doing ssh and then setting the DISPLAY variable
> to point to the cygwin box (before that the remote host was added to the
> list of allowed hosts). Now with the latest version this does not work
> (I get an error message "Xlib: no protocol specified"), only ssh -Y
> does. But this results in much slower performance, and therefore the
> question is: was it an intentinal change or there is some new step that
> I am supposed to do now to be able to just point to my cygwin box?
I'll let Alexander or someone else more familiar with X internals pick up
the "no protocol specified" problem. Could be a firewall issue...
As for 'ssh -Y" being slow, consider passing a "-C" option to ssh.
> 2. Now, when I try to run sshd on the cygwin box (and I set up the ssh
> server according to the README file) I am able to check that the server
> works by logging in from the bash prompt where I am already logged on,
> but not from any remote host, or even from the same prompt but logged on
> as another user. Before upgrading to the most recent version everything
> worked just fine.
This is not an X-related issue. You should probably report it on the main
Cygwin list at <cygwin at cygwin dot com>.
> These problems I have on both WinXP and Win2K, with or without ZoneAlarm
> 5 or 4.5.
Firewall programs usually change the behavior of the TCP/IP stack by
substituting their own DLLs in place of the system ones, so they may
affect the behavior of network/socket related code even when disabled.
When you say "without ZA", do you mean "ZA disabled", or "ZA not
installed"?
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Boris.
>
> pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX wrote:
Oh, and <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks.
Igor
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, savantsaro wrote:
> >
> >
> > > box 1: Windows 2000 Server
> > > cygwin
> > >
> > > box 2: Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
> > >
> > > cygwin was installed with openssh, today, from the latest setup.exe.
> >
> > FYI, it's probably a good idea to review
> > <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> before sending bug reports...
> > Reading /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README would also help.
> >
> > > Basic scenario:
> > > startxwin.bat -> X icon appears in taskbar, terminal opens
> > > ssh -Y -l username box2name -> ssh connection is established and works
> > > fine
> > > emacs & -> [1]+ Stopped emacs
> > >
> > > Troubleshooting already done:
> > > I have also tried with putty, with X11 tunneling enabled, and tried
> > > running other apps (specifically a java swing application, which does
> > > not stop but simply does nothing on box 1)
> > > The DISPLAY environment variable was not set.
> >
> > There's your problem. You should set it before running "ssh -Y".
> > For example try either
> >
> > export DISPLAY=:0.0; ssh -Y username@boxname
> >
> > or even
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0.0 ssh -Y username@boxname
> >
> > -- both should work.
> >
> > > I tried setting it to "localhost:0.0" and to ":0", with no effect.
> > > The config files for ssh (~/.ssh/config and /etc/ssh_config) did not
> > > exist.
> > >
> >
> > Ah. Did you run /bin/ssh-user-config?
> >
> > > I created the first one with a single line (ForwardX11 yes) with no
> > > change.
> > >
> > > Please help. I know cygwin is a good, working program, and I'm an
> > > intelligent computer guy - why won't it work for me?
> >
> > Maybe Cygwin just doesn't like you? ;-)
> > You know, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>...
> > Igor
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