Re: [TCLUG:8994] X over SSH thru IPMasq

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> This can be one of many problems.  Most likely, the problem is being
> caused by there either not being an xauth in the expected path, or xauth
> is not installed on the machine.  To SSH, if xauth isn't found, no X11
> forwarding is allowed.  Pass the -v flag the next time you try it to see
> what types of error messages SSH generates when you connect:

Well, using the -v flag helped me find problem..  I forgot to change the ip
address for my hostname in /etc/hosts after moving up here this fall.. (oops)

By default, SSH sets the DISPLAY variable to '<hostname>:10.0', rather than
something more logical like 'localhost:10.0' (well, that seems more logical to
me, anyway..)  Oh well, just proves you always have to make sure your hostname
is correct in the hosts file.

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