To answer your question, I am not running the GUI on either side of the connection.
However I figured out the issue, I hadn't set my remote terminal to request X11 packets be forwarded to it so the DISPLAY variable was not being set when I was connecting.
I typically do this sort of thing from another Linux box using the SSH -X option but since I was trying to use my laptop as a proxy for the remote server to get to the network install on my local LAN I was uing a third party application and missed a step.
I run my servers in init 3 so there is not an active desktop manager running, X applications are then available on demand instead of taking up system resources. In addition my laptop is (unfortunately) running windows XP so I run a X server locally in order to display the target X app. I don't usually run a full desktop manager over a WAN connection I restrict that to/from local boxes on the same LAN.
Thanks for responding though.
David
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