SSH in X?

[Jon Reynolds]

Thanks Warren, I issued the command you illustrated and it didn't work using 
the username at server.example.com so I tried using the IP instead of 
username at server.example.com and it worked!! I have tried to get VNC to work 
but i can never get a desktop. I always seem to just get an xterm instead, 
but I will go and find why this is happening, I must just be missing 
something that I overlooked.

You Rock,

Jon

On Friday 14 September 2001 08:52 pm, you wrote:
> You do not specify a display number for -X.  This method only activates X
> forwarding.  This is not launching an X session.  You allow remote X client
> applications to connect to your already running local X session.
>
> From within a local xterm type,
> ssh -X -C -c blowfish username at server.example.com
>
> This should allow a login, and everything will be normal SSH.  However,
> when you run an X program it will appear on your local display,
> automatically forwarded through the SSH tunnel.  Your local window manager
> will handle the remote X client applications.
>
> However, if you want a full remote desktop environment, you will need to
> use XDMCP.  I don't know how to do that through a SSH tunnel.
>
> If you plan on using remote X desktops, I recommend using VNC instead of X.
> The bandwidth usage is much below X, and security is much better.  You can
> also protect VNC with SSH tunnels in a similar fashion as X.  I am in the
> process of writing a HOWTO on this topic, hopefully will be done next week.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jon Reynolds" <proteon at gci.net>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 6:28 PM
> Subject: [luau] Re: SSH in X?
>
> > Hey Warren, I think I might have missed something. Here is what I am
>
> putting
>
> > in:
> >
> > ssh -X 1.1 -C -c blowfish xx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >
> > What happens is it acts like it is getting ready to start but it never
> > ask
>
> me
>
> > for the password. Am I missing something? And where exactly does the new
> > remote X session start? If you would rather have me read it than tell is
> > there a good site dedicated to this?
> >
> > Thnx Again,
> >
> > Jon
>
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