RE: SSH & XFree86

[Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>]

Hi John,

	I use SSH the same way that you do, and although I can't be sure to solve
your problem, here are a couple recommendations;

	Use the -C parameter with SSH so that it will compress your data, this will
speed your sessions.
	Make sure your DISPLAY environment variable is set to 127.0.0.1:0.0 in your
local shell before issuing your connection request, because if it is not,
you won't be able to receive the X stream back along the SSH conduit.

	Other than that, I can't think of anything...


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of John Burkhart
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 1:57 PM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: SSH & XFree86

To whomever may have the knowledge (aka HH?),

I am using XFree86 running on a win98 machine to access a remote Unix
system. My machine is behind a router, therefore when i run ssh with the
parameters : ssh -X -l username hostname
I get the follwing error:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.

Subsequently the remote machine gives me a "can't open display" error
whenever I try to run anything like xmgr or even and xterm on the remote
machine. Do I need to use port forwarding? If so, how do I do this? The
router has a public IP address, but the IP on my computer is invisible to
the WAN as far as I can tell.

Thank you, john