SSH & XFree86

[Andrew Markebo]

What is the variable DISPLAY set to on the unix-machines?? 

What is the variable DISPLAY set to in the terminal you do the ssh -X
command from?

        /Andy

/ John Burkhart <johnny@hwr.arizona.edu> wrote:
| To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?),
>
| I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine to access a remote Unix
| system. My machine is behind a router, therefore when i run ssh with the
| parameters : ssh -X -l username hostname
| I get the follwing error:
| Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
>
| Subsequently the remote machine gives me a "can't open display" error
| whenever I try to run anything like xmgr or even and xterm on the remote
| machine. Do I need to use port forwarding? If so, how do I do this? The
| router has a public IP address, but the IP on my computer is invisible to
| the WAN as far as I can tell.
>
| Thank you, john
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