ssh problems

[Jon Reynolds]

Rodney, could you post the answer if you get it to work? I have wanted to do 
the same thing but get the same type errors, but i haven't had the time to 
really get into it. I would be interested in reading the followups to this 
post. Thnx 

Jon

On Wednesday 03 October 2001 11:18, you wrote:
> 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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