Running remote programs locally

[Gary Nicholson]

I am not able to view remote X programs on local cygwin X display. 

>From remote (Linux) machine, I can view cygwin X programs.

On local machine, I set DISPLAY and export it as instructed. 

On local machine, echo $DISPLAY gives :0.0

After I ssh to remote machine, echo $DISPLAY gives empty string

Does this mean that ssh is not working? 

When I ssh, I get error: 

"WARNING: no xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11
forwarding."

Is this a fatal error?

Thanks for help.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
[mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Gottwald
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 1:41 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Running remote programs locally

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Andrew Clarke wrote:

> I do have one question though: why do I set my DISPLAY environment
> variable on the same line as my ssh call?  What's the deal with that?

Then this variable is only valid for that program and is automticly 
exported. Otherwise you'll have to do (for /bin/sh) 

DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
export DISPLAY
ssh -X linuxcomputer

bye
	ago