Remote X over ssh

[Ken Moffat]

Shawn Tayler wrote:

>Ok Guys,
>
>All this X discussion has brought to mind an issue that I had put on a back
>burner.  I am trying to get a remotre X session on a PC over a LAN.  I am
>using ssh to initially connect.  I have X Forwarding enabled in the
>sshdconfig file.  What are the other steps I need to accomplish?  the xhost
>+ and export DISPLAY 0.0:?  
>
>What would be the difference if I wanted to say have my local X session on
>cntl-alt-F7 anf the remote session appear on cntl-alt-F8?  Is thios
>possible?
>
>Thanks for the help and all the great guidance in tha past.
>
>Shawn
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I enable forwarding in sshd_config using

X11Forwarding yes

and the call I use is

ssh -X servername

this runs the program on the server, but displays it on the client. 
Maybe not exactly what you want, but it's easy.


-- 
ken