Fwd: ForwardX11 not working

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Mirko Vukovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have cygwin installed as a server on my desktop.  I can log into it
> from my linux box using ssh, but I cannot open displays on the linux
> box.
> 
> By that I mean that if I login in using ssh, and invoke a command that
> should open a window (like gnuplot), it opens the plot on the server,
> and not on the client.
> 
> Here is my setup (the cygwin distribution is a few days old).
> 
> On the desktop (server),
> 
>  - I have ran ssh-host-config and set CYGWIN=ntsec server.  I said yes
> to privilege separation, and I have an sshd user in /etc/passwd
>  - I have set DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 in .bash_profile
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't do this.

> On my linux box (client), I have an ~/.ssh/config file with the lines
> in the section refering to the server: "ForwardX11 yes" and
> "ForwardX11Trusted yes"
> 
> I can login to the server from both the linux box and my laptop (where
> I also have cygwin), and can run unison (which requires ssh).
> 
> I read the various doc's and searched mails (does not mean I
> understood everything), which resulted in the above setup.  I am
> including the output of cygcheck.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what I may have missed, or what server/client
> setting I can look at?

See above.


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