i have a slackbox(tincat1) set up w/ a wireless ethernet bridge(linksys wet11) and want to access it with a zaurus handheld. i can ssh into tincat1 but cannot seem to get X to go along. i have tried the -X option w/ssh and i have disabled access control(via xhost) on tincat1. i still get x forwarding denied. any ideas on what i'm missing will be appreciated. thanx

Check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on the slack box and see what the X11-Forwarding options are. Also, stupid question, you are running an xserver on the zaurus right?

thanx for your quick attention-i do have the XQt server running on the zaurus and am running blackbox and rxvt on it. when i ssh -X into it i get a "remote host denied X11 forwarding". i've been into ssh_config and have the line "ForwardX11 yes" uncommented-all the rest are still hashed. i can move around and do non x commands on tincat1 from zaurus and from the messages i get the idea that the blockage is with tincat1-i have played w/this and searched and so on, but i'm no expert, so i certainly may have missed something.
as i understand it, ssh adds 1 to the local display :0- so i issue konqueror -display :1 on the zaurus and i get "cannot connect to the Xserver"(same with display :0)

Did you try: ssh -Y to connect ?

i gave "ssh -Y" a quick try, keefaz, and i just get the ssh "help" screen listing options; among which there does not appear a "Y" choice. perhaps i need a newer ssh-will do more later-thanx

Usage: ssh -Y server

My ssh package is : openssh-3.9p1-i486-1

On tincat1 run

Or to disable the checking of it all together:

NOTE: That last method allows, pretty much anything in your network to access your X Server - BAD SECURITY. (but good for testing purposes)

This might help..... I hope =)

thanx for your suggestions, BinaryBob; this is a bit frustrating. i did "xhost + 192.168.1.225(ip of wet11) on tincat1" and i also did "xhost +"on tincat1" and then a plain "xhost" to see if the changes were effected. in each case it appears they were-i now have "access control disabled".
your post makes me wonder if the problem lies in the bridge(wet11) and its ip as opposed to the zaurus' actual ip or even its mac. i would think that tincat1 sees a remote coming in wireless over the bridge would see it at the bridge ip and since i can get in(as a user not root, which is another issue-none of these currently connects to anything but each other; i will try to get to know what i'm doing before i do security for an outside cnxn-i believe i'm too far in the woods for anyone but nsa to pick up the wifi as of now.
getting back to the problem at hand; i realize that i also have much to learn about the zaurus itself, so i'm going to look into that some-i have xqt server on it and the problem may be there.
any thoughts are always appreciated; i'll post more later.

I dunno if its been covered, but you might want to try other kinds of connections. basic PINGs, maybe FTP or ssh shell login. And see if any of that connects. The bridge should be ok, all its doing is temporarily converting 10/100BaseT to WiFi, and then back at some point, if I'm assuming the setup correctly. What is your setup exactly? That might lend us some insight here. Does the Zarus connect directly via wireless to the tincat1? or is it through an access point of some kind? Maybe a lil ASCII art is in order