- so please be gentle.

I'm trying to setup a remote access system for potential offsite development work.

My plan is to use SSH to connect from the outside world to one server, then be able to telnet around our inside servers. This much I can get to work.

What I can't get to work is any X sessions between any machines - even if I'm logged in locally. I'm running a collection of various *nixes (RedHat 9, Solaris 9 for SPARC, AIX).

I promise to burn my Micro$not certification cards in honor of the first person to help me!

TIA,
Justin

could be a few things....

locally you may need to specify xhost + to allow an xsession from another server. Check google for more info on xhost.

as for across SSH you would need to specify in your ssh_config file to allow x11 forwarding. Change:

ForwardX11 no

to

ForwardX11 yes


That should get you in the right direction......oh and make sure port 6000 to 6100 (maybe more forget the range) is accessable via the firewall.

Thanks. That stuff I've already been looking at. Firewall stuff isn't an issue because I'm trying to work with the machines "locally" and still not having success.

Will spend more time on the xhosts stuff...

I guess all these year on Win platforms has made me dumb.

THANKS!

I wouldn't say dumb...lets just say you have freed your mind.....

ssh provides the slickest way to do X11 forwarding, so maybe you should ssh exclusively instead of both ssh and telnet.

That's what I ended up doing. I SSH in from the outside, then SSH from machine to machine and everything works fine.

Thanks guys.