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The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

X forwarding in SSH

I've got an SSH server at my house at my college town, and I'm at my parents house.  I'm trying to forward  X from my house to my parents house but I'm getting an error message.  It worked on Xubuntu, so I'm sure its something I haven't onfigured correctly but I don't know how to fix it.

nelson@alpha-pc:~$ oocalc
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
nelson@alpha-pc:~$ X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

nelson@alpha-pc:~$

Any idea?

srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: X forwarding in SSH

What command did you use to connect to the server.

I can use X11 forwarding by using any one of the below two commands.

ssh -X <user>@server
ssh -Y <user>@server

BTW, is X11 frwding enabled at your server?

-Sri

The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Re: X forwarding in SSH

I used ssh -X username@server

I'll check if X11 is enabled.  I know it was on the computer I'm currently using before I formatted it, but it might not be on the one I'm trying to connect to.  I didn't even think of that... I'll let you know