ssh problems

[Rodney Kanno]

Hi Dusty,

K when I do the echo I get: 

[happy at dhcp-196-36 happy]$ echo $DISPLAY
dhcp-196-36:10.0

and on the local computer I get 

[happy at localhost happy]$ echo $DISPLAY
:0.0

So is there  a way to SSH into the remote to use the same display?

Rodney

On Wednesday 03 October 2001 08:00 pm, you wrote:
> Sounds like your problem is in setting the DISPLAY.  When you ssh to
> dhcp-196-36 do an 'echo $DISPLAY' and see if it is "dhcp-196-36:0.0", it
> should be <localsystems>:0.0.  dhcp-196-36 is the <remotesystem>:0.0.  Does
> that make any sense?
>
> Dusty
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > can anyone tell me what the cause of this error message is in SSH? I
> > logged into the computer using " ssh -X happy at servername " so that I
> > could forward X. Trying to run xmms I got this message:
> >
> > [happy at dhcp-196-36 happy]$ xmms
> > _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for dhcp-196-36
> >
> > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display
> >
> > Is it because the computer I am logged onto uses DHCP?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rodney
> >
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