strange ssh problem

simgood · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

Hi there,
I'm running gentoo 2006.1. I've got OpenSSH_4.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7i installed. The connection to the host of interrest seems to work perfektly, at least at the first glance. I can work in most of the applications. The problem ist, some windows are empty. For example: I can use xmaple -cw. But if I trie to open the Edit->Preferences dialog a new window appears, but without the dialog in it. Another app ot this sort is femlab.

I've got no idea what the problem might be. Can ayone give me a hint?

thanks

simon

sternklang · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 1:56 pm Post subject:

If I understand your post correctly, you're trying to run X apps forwarded through ssh. I'm not familiar with either of the programs you mention, but it sounds like perhaps they use some X library for rendering the missing dialogs that is available on the remote end but not on your end.

I don't think ssh can selectively block certain windows so I think you should look for the problem in your X setup. Perhaps there is another system you could use to try connecting from?

I should say that I sometimes run apps from my home (Gentoo) system at a work system that has Cygwin/X on top of MS Windows and I only have problems with apps that depend on dbus or some other system feature not available in Cygwin.

simgood · n00b Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 2

he there
well yes there must be something wrong with my installation, but I can't figure out what.

If I use a live cd with Scientific Linux (distro on the server) everything works ok.

cibonato · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 8:50 pm Post subject:

If you try to run the programs in the host of interest, does it run with no problem? I mean, you log in to this host (not remotly, sitting in front of the machine) and run the programs. What happens?

My experience with X forwarding through SSH is good. I work at tow different places and use to run X progams remotly with no problems (mail clients, office suites, etc, etc.). I noted that all the processing is done at the "server" and just the result is sent to you. You shouldn't need special libraries at the clients to run the programs remotly.

For instance, in one machine A I have firefox + java + flashplayer, so I can connect to A from B through SSH, run firefox and see web pages with java applets with no problems. And no matters if I have java and flashplayer in B.

I think it should some problem with the "server" installation.
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