Re: telnet session problem


Tim Bradshaw wrote:

The easiest and safest way to do this is to use ssh and let it forward
the X session:

* check DISPLAY is set on the local machine
* ssh -X remote-machine
* DISPLAY should now be set appripriately in your login session on the
remote box, and X connections will be forwarded through ssh.

This depends on having ssh of course, and on sshd etc being configured
to allow X forwarding.

If you don't care about security (are on a secure network in other
words, then you can:

* on the local host say xhost +remote-host
* on remote-host set DISPLAY to local-host:0.0, and export it
* run X applications on remote-host

This will send X traffic unencrypted over the wire, including
everythign you type...

--tim

tim thanks for your reply. I tried that out but I'm getting the error "
xterm Xt error: can't open display: localmachine:0.0....what do you
mean by "export it" and do ?I have to be root on the remote machine?
Thanks

steve

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