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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:
1) 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
2) Not all X Servers default to running network X11, infact, some distros positively disable it.
3) The traffic is uncompressed, and so slow.
The correct way, as already noted on the thread, is to enable X11 forwarding on the ssh server.
Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk