Remote X Apps

[Noah Dain]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:33:49 -0300, Gabriel Patiño <gepatino at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:25:53 -0500, GrapeApe <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > If you are running gdm, make sure it is allowing your X server to have
> > TCP connections.       You can check by doing a "ps -elf | grep X".
> > (the option to look for is -nolisten tcp).   It comes with the factory
> > default to NOT allow TCP connections.
> >
> > You can change it by running gdmsetup->security->Disallow TCP or by
> > editing the /etc/gdm.conf file by hand (look for TCP).
> >
> > You'll have to restart gdm.
> >
> 
> Be carefull!!!
> 
> When you allow TCP connection in gdm, the result is that remote
> clients can connect to your gdm, and from there start a session in
> your machine, using their own display.
> 
> This is different to what Ben was trying to do, just to diplay a
> remote's application in your local display. For this, he should follow
> the advices of using ssh -X.
> 
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if you use ssh X11 tunneling, you needn't bother with xhosts or
removing -nolisten tcp from the x-server command.  They're only good
for direct external connections, like those originating from telnet
sessions.

see that you have these lines uncommented in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file:
    X11Forwarding yes
    X11DisplayOffset 10

and for the ssh client (/etc/ssh/ssh_config):
    ForwardAgent yes
    ForwardX11 yes
    ForwardX11Trusted yes

after that, you needn't bother with the -X (ie. ssh -X user at hostname)

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Noah Dain
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