Problems with ssh and X

[Alexander Gottwald]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Dr Christian Hicks wrote:

> First, please accept my apologies for send my message
> to the wrong list. Thanks to Igor for suggesting the
> FAQ list. I have now tried:
> 
> ssh -Y -l username remotemachine
> 
> I now get the error message:
> 
> connect 212.159.18.214 port 6000 Connection refused.
> 
> (the IP address is the static IP address provided by my ISP)
> There is still nothing in the log of my Netgear NG834G firewall
> or the ZoneAlarm log. I shutdown Zone alarm and the same thing
> happened.

Which unix you're connecting too? Gentoo does set the DISPLAY
variable to the remote ip and breaks X11 Forwarding.

bye
	ago
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