On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 09:25:19AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Stuart Bailey stuart@linusoft.co.uk wrote:
If you want to try setting it up manually, you need to do the following:
xhost +<host or ip of remote machine> ssh <host or ip of remote machine>
at the command prompt on the remote machine type: export DISPLAY=<ip or host of local machine>:0
now try running an X app, such as firefox. It should appear on your local machine.
Ewww, naughty. For the following reasons, this is a bad idea:
- X traffic, in this set up, is not going over the SSH link, it's being
thrown over the network in the usual X11 protocol, which isn't encryted
- Not all X Servers default to running network X11, infact, some
distros positively disable it.
- The traffic is uncompressed, and so slow.
Not to mention that it won't work for me (I hadn't noticed that all that was being suggested was a 'normal' X setup, just happening to use ssh to get to the remote machine to run the app). These ssh links I'm using are specifically permitted ports through our firewall to and from specific machines to allow me to access work machines from home. Most ports are blocked.