Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-07 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/8/6 Dotan Cohen : > I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter > what I try it complains about the display: > > ✈dcl:~$ xhost + localhost > localhost being added to access control list > ✈dcl:~$ ssh -X u...@ip.address > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=lo

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 15:49, Keith Roberts wrote: > Give me a temporary login (sent directly via email) as > u...@centos-55-32-minimal, and I'll see if I can login and run Nautilus from > here. > > Are there any other X apps that you can run on the remote box that will work > over ssh -X ? > Tha

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: To: CentOS mailing list From: Dotan Cohen Subject: Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem *snipped* For some reason, now I can just SSH -X in and then start Nautilus. This was _not_ working earlier, which is why I hit google and

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Dotan Cohen wrote: To: CentOS mailing list From: Dotan Cohen Subject: Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:05, Simon Billis wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: > Check that you have X11Forwarding

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:59, Simon Billis wrote: > Ah yes - Hakan Koseoglu has correctly identified the problem in his recent > sorry to have wasted your time :-) > No, I feel that I had wasted yours! But if we both had learned something then the time was invested, not wasted. Thanks! -- Dota

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:05, Simon Billis wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: CUT > > Still no luck: > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus > cannot open display: > Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line > options. > [u...@centos

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:31, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > Dotan, > > Do not do these steps: > > On 6 August 2010 09:24, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 >> [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0 >> cannot open display: 0:0 > > When you c

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:05, Simon Billis wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: >> > Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf >> > >> > Rgds >> > >> > Simon >> > >> > >> >> Thanks, Simon, it appears so: >> >> [r...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Dotan, Do not do these steps: On 6 August 2010 09:24, Dotan Cohen wrote: > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus --display=0:0 > cannot open display: 0:0 When you connect with sssh -X, it will create the tunnel and assign a DISPLAY

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: > > Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf > > > > Rgds > > > > Simon > > > > > > Thanks, Simon, it appears so: > > [r...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep > X11Forwarding > #X11Forwarding no > X11Forwarding

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: > Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf > > Rgds > > Simon > > Thanks, Simon, it appears so: [r...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep X11Forwarding #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes The SSH server (and the m

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Dotan, > I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter > what I try it complains about the display: > > ✈dcl:~$ xhost + localhost > localhost being added to access control list > ✈dcl:~$ ssh -X u...@ip.address > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.