Hi there --

One of our users is trying to connect to a remote Linux system from his Mac, and then run several X applications on that system. He opens up an X terminal, and first types in the following command:

He then connects via ssh to the remote system using the following command syntax:

Once he is on the remote system, his command shell is tcsh, and the following command is entered:

When he tries to start xemacs, or any X application for that matter, he gets the following error message:

Several other users have used the above procedure, and have been able to start the remote X applications without a problem.

Has anyone seen this, and know what the fix is to this problem? Thanks.

When using the X tunnel via SSH, you do not need to set $DISPLAY on the X client. The tunnel should do that for you. It will usually be set to localhost:XX, where XX is some lowish integer value. Also, no need to use xhost, as it must already be accepting X traffic from the local host, otherwise the xterm would not have operated.
--- rod.