Thanks for the reply Todd. Here's what I found: Before changing anything: - There was still no $DISPLAY set on the remote host after logging in. No change in behavior, X still not forwarding.
After setting a local DISPLAY in my Cygwin ennvironment, I then tried the follwoing, and it worked, but I did get an xauth data warning: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] jnokes]$ echo $DISPLAY localhost:10.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] jnokes]$ - I ran a test with xeyes and it worked fine. Thanks for the solution. I'm now intrigued as to why I needed this, never have in the past, and it alwyas just worked fine. And what is SecureCRT doing "under-the-hood" to make it work without any visible warnings that Cygwin ssh is not doing? Thanks again for the help. - Jeff --- Todd Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is on the client side. > > Before you ssh to your other systems export DISPLAY=localhost:0 > > Than try and ssh into Linux systems. > > Test: > 1. Before changing anything ssh into Linux system. What does $DISPLAY > say? > 2. After changing display on client side, What does $DISPLAY say? > > Todd C. Bowden > HP Certified > AtosOrigin > 5000 S. Bowen > Arlington, TX 76017 > Office: 817-264-8211 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Nokes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Can't get ssh to forward X packets > > > Hi, > My name is Jeff. I recently started a new job that gave me a Win2K box > to ssh into the various unix environments to do my work. The box came > with SecureCRT on it, and it works fine. I prefer to use the cygwin > environment so I set it up on my workstation, and it seems to work fine > as well, except for two issues, one of which is the question of this > posting. > > Whenever I ssh into my dev linux boxes, wishing to have X packets > forwarded back to my local Xserver on my workstation, it doesn't seem to > be working through ssh on Cygwin. It does, however, work with > SecureCRT. I just set up Cygwin in June, so all the packages are > up-2-date. And I've been using it for a long time at other jobs, and at > home, and the X forwarding via ssh always works, but not this time. > I've even tried re-installing the ssh package, but no changes. When > looking at the verbose output, no mention of X forwarding at all. I > know I'm doing it correctly: > ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ... and I do log in successfully, but there's never a $DISPLAY variable > set on the remote host, as there should be. When I check $DISPLAY when > logging in with SecureCRT, I can see it just fine, and X forwards > perfectly. So, the OpenSSH server is not the issue. I've even tried > setting my ~/.ssh/config file to have 'ForwardX11 yes', still nothing. > I've tried it using interactive and passive logins, etc., still no > change. > > The older versions of Cygwin I've ran in the past always forwarded X > seamlessly, not sure why the most recent install won't. Anyone have any > ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > - Jeff > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
