X Forwarding using SSH

edudlive · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Posts: 557

I have enabled xforwarding in the ssh_config on the remote PC

I connect to the PC by:

ssh -X zach@192.168.0.103

but I can't seem to get X to forward, startx and everything forwards to the OTHER computer.

Do I need X to be running on the other PC? How can I get it to run from MINE?

I googled but couldn't really find much help, nothing I found worked

log · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:22 am Post subject:

This is what you have to do:

Run the X server on your computer.
Open a terminal, run ssh (note: you may need to run it with -Y instead...)

then run xclock to test

Basically, when you run startx, that starts the xserver and the client is the computer thats running the program (its a bit backwards, i know)