Hello guys, is it possible to enable X11 forwarding over telnet. I have a few boxes where i can't use ssh so the only way to connect is telnet. I need to export stuff to my linux box (Fedora Core 1). Is it possible or ssh is the only way to forward X11 stuff.

Thanks

hi there

one thing u can do is
run

export DISPLAY= ipaddress of target machine
or
export DISPLAY= ipaddress of target machine:0

then
run this at cleint end
xhost +ipaddressofserver

and when u run any X11 appliaction all will be forwarded to the target machine
to revert back
export DISPLAY = :0

regards

masand, unless I don't understand what you write, I think you're doing things the wrong way.

What does X11 forwarding by SSH means? Answer: this means that X11 communications (remember, X11 is a network protocol) go through the SSH pipe, so that they benefit from encryption. Telnel is not a secure protocol; there's no encryption. So there wouldn't be any benefit from doing forwarding! X11 is already a network protocol. So obviously no, Telnet cannot forward X11. You have to use X11 networking on its normal pipe (which is using a different port than telnet's or ssh's).

Let's say you're on LocalPC, and you want to remotely do stuff on RemotePC. Here's what you do (this will only work if DISPLAY is defined on LocalPC's terminal session):Then do whatever you want.

Yves.

u can see that it the same thing that u r saying(to use the X11 networking)

regards

Yes. Sorry, I didn't want to offence you; I probably wasn't clear enough.
The details I gave were in answer to smkamene's initial question.
The thing I said about your post is something else: The way I understand what you wrote, it seems to me you reversed the two machines (server instead of client, and client instead of server). But then, maybe I simply did not understand. And I'm sure, that between our two posts, smkamene will have his answer.

Yves.

hi there
pl. correct me if i am wrong here but
don't we need to set the ip address of the target/client machine in trhe DISPLAY environ at server machine,so that all X11 app. are exported to the display environ set, which is that of the cleint machine
i have done this many times and i remember it doing it this way only

regards

Yes, so we agree. Now that you say so, and after re-re-reading your first post, I see you were correct in the first place. The word that lost me was "target", which I understood as the server, whereas you meant the client. After this, I logically understood "client" as the X client side.
Those explanations are difficult because the X server is running on the "network client", and the X clients are running on the "network server"
Have a good day!

Yves.

hi there

yes , i hope 'smkamene' will find answer to his questions now easily

regards

Hmm...no luck guys


This works fine if i ssh over to the box, i do not have firewall running on my box. Any other ideas guys?

did u try the way i mentioned

regards

I thought i did ? ...btw ..i forgot to mention that i did run xhost + before attempting all this.

hi there

u need to run the export DISPLAY command on the machine from where u want to forward ur display
and xhost on ur client machine
i think u r doing it the other way round

regards

myhpuxserver in my example is my machine where i want to forward my display from. It's a hpux box. hqlintest is my example is my Fedora Core 1 box. I ran ps -ax on my Fedora box and saw this:

I wonder if -nolisten has anything to do with my inability to send anything to the screen. ???

Yup, you need to remove the nolisten bit (it'll probably be in something like xserver or something (I can't really remember, and I'm not on a Linux box)).

Hmm..i can't find it ...can you guys point me in the right direction. I am on a Fedora Core 1 . Xfree86