[Macpartners] remote X display on 10.3?

[Duncan Kincaid]

could ssh into your x client once editing /etc/ssh_config as below:

uncomment 'ForwardX11' and set to 'yes'


On Nov 13, 2003, at 6:10 PM, Kerem B Limon wrote:

> Alex--
>
> Well, one way to test your theory would be to make an ssh connection 
> with port forwarding for X through the ssh tunnel and see if that 
> works. It is possible that in the Sharing control panel (if that is 
> still there in 10.3), you need to specifically set the firewall to 
> allow ports X use--if the firewall is turned on that is.
>
> Kerem
>
>
> At 03/11/13 17:42  Thursday, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I just upgraded my G4 PowerBook to 10.3 and am running into a remote
> display issue with X11. I can get Kerberos tickets with kinit; I xhost
> to my Athena workstation then telnet to it (with the -f or -F switch);
> it logs me in (though there is an unusually long pause at the stage
> where it runs "standard startup activities"), but it's unable to open
> the X display and I can't run X apps that display on the PowerBook.
>
> I ran into something like this when I installed the new Fedora Linux
> release- they added additional firewall rules that disable the X port
> by default unless you edit a special config file; does anyone know if
> Apple is doing this? (or just how to make remote X display work with
> telnet on 10.3).
>
> ssh doesn't seem to have this problem but I'd like to be able to use 
> telnet
> too.
>
>                                              Thanks,
>
>                                                    Alex
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