Trying to get X forwarding to work through SSH

genji · 2023-09-05 01:45:33

Hello all, I am using an app called MobaXterm in Windows that supposedly is great for X forwarding but it's not working for me.

  04/09/2023   21:43.18   /home/mobaxterm  ssh -X genji@192.168.0.252
X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
Last login: Mon Sep  4 21:39:33 2023 from 192.168.0.3
[genji@gateway-nord ~]$ startx

/usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console.

It's saying X11 forwarding request failed right off the bat I see.. Is anyone familiar with what I need to do? Different app or something maybe?

Thank you!

just4arch · 2023-09-05 04:35:32

You probably need to set "X11Forwarding yes" in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

BUT I think you want to read up on what this actually does...
You don't start X in the SSH session, you'll need a local X server - there are some for windows.

genji · 2023-09-05 04:37:08

Hi just4arch! MobaXterm has this built in I believe, one of it's big features - and it's enabled everywhere I can find inside the app itself.. I tried running just X apps directly as well instead of startx .. I'm going to check that sshd_config though and I'll post back, thank you

schard · 2023-09-05 05:16:22

Try running ssh in verbose mode in order to get some more debug output.

seth · 2023-09-05 06:12:44

Sanity check: you're trying to ssh -X into a remote host from a running X11 session?
Because the "startx" there looks like there might be a misconception of what X11 forwarding is or does.

Trilby · 2023-09-05 12:30:29

And why are you running ssh directly from a command line? According to the webpage, MobaXterm has it's own interface for establishing a connection to a remote machine. You are connecting from the windows machine to the arch machine, right? (If you're going the other way MobaXterm is not relevant).

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#1 2023-09-05 01:45:33

Trying to get X forwarding to work through SSH

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Re: Trying to get X forwarding to work through SSH

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