[plug] ssh & X window

[Alan Graham]

Quick and dirty method.

On your workstation, run 'xhost +<hostname.of.remote>'

you can just run xhost +, which will allow any host to sue your X-server. 
This is...  not good...  Always put a hostname in.

On you remote, in your ssh session, set the environment variable DISPLAY to
your workstationname:0.0  In csh, do
setenv DISPLAY wsname:0.0

sh, bash, ksh, etc, do
export DISPLAY=wsname:0.0

where wsname is a hostname that will allow the remote system to contact
yoour workstation.  If there is no such name, just put the ip address in
instead of the name.

Alan

On 2001.10.17 23:02 Tim Bowden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Simple question- If I want to log into another host on the lan using ssh
> & then run an X window program and have it display on my workstation
> what configuration files do I need to set up?
> 
> Can anyone recomend any good texts on X protocols? From the little I
> have read it seems to a very capable system however the books I have
> seem to be more concerned with setting up window managers rather than
> exploring the network capabilities of the system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
>