Remote display problem with ssh

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jan 20 06:01:31 UTC 2010


Karl-Olov Serrander wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I have 2 Fedora12 machines (a and b), when logged in after doing
> "ssh -Y user at b" from a and try to start xterm on b to be displayed
> on a, I get "xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0"
>
> Both machines are on my local 192.168.0.0 net.
>
> Default Fedora 12 ssh config files.
>
> Any hints ?
>   
Does the problem exist in both directions?

I've never seen this error.  The closest I've come to seeing it is when
the /etc/ssh/sshd_config was modified to read "X11Forwarding no".

Ed

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