ssh/X with two hops

[Thomas Chadwick]

BTW - emacs works perfectly well over a terminal session.  No need for X at 
all.  You should be able to open a good-old MS-DOS prompt, telnet or ssh to 
your hearts content, then make sure TERM=vt100 on the remote system, then 
run emacs.

>From: Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen@cimsoft.com>
>Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>To: Cygwin XFree Users List <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
>Subject: ssh/X with two hops
>Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:44:11 -0600
>
>I'm a newbie at ssh and would like some advice.  I have a home pc
>(windows xp) and an office pc (windows xp) behind a firewall/gateway
>host (linux).  I want to run X at home and display (on my home X
>server) an emacs running on my office pc.  Here is my most recent
>attempt:
>
>I have cygwin sshd running on my office machine...
>
>1. startxwin.sh at home
>
>2. In an xterm run "ssh -X -L 22:osaka:2200 gateway" this allows my to
>    login directly to my office machine but leaves an unnecessary login
>    on the gateway.  X port forwarding works in this login, but it is
>    the wrong host.
>
>3. In a new xterm run "ssh -X localhost".  Now I am logged onto my
>    office machine and hopefully X ports are being forwarded, but no!
>
>4. When I "echo $DISPLAY" on my office machine the variable is empty.
>
>I have, of course, tried many other permutations of this procedure,
>but this seems the closest to correct - but no joy.
>
>Another permutation I've tried is to ssh to the gateway and then ssh
>from the gateway to my office pc, but again the DISPLAY variable is
>not set even though I use -X.
>
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks!
>--
>Robert
>

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