Re: [MLUG] Help with Remote X for Bengal.

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Christian M. Cepel wrote:
> I just wasted a night trying to figure out how to run an X app my wife 
> has used before, which exists in bengal, and has successfully run for 
> her CECS365 (I think) class using the SGIs in ebw.
> 
> Oh, I tried everything, different protocols, different operating systems 
> (fedora core 2, win2k), with/without the cisco vpn installed and 
> running, disabling all firewalls between here and there, etc, etc, etc.
> 
> Called the helpdesk and they tell me that X is not possible from Bengal, 
> that it's not even installed, which confuses me as the following does 
> exist:
> 
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED ~]$ ls /usr/X11R6/bin/
> fslsfonts  fstobdf  mkfontdir  mkfontscale  xfs  xfsinfo

Did you try

ssh -X bengal.missouri.edu?

Of course, it will still not work if they disallowed it in their 
sshd_config file.  Also how was it going to work with win2k?

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