[CS-FSLUG] Using SSH

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:14:51 -0400
Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got it!  I cannot launch an app when running ssh, but once I log
> into the remote host, I can run any app I want - xclock, Mozilla,
> whatever.  Almost every example uses xclock as a parameter to the ssh
> command, thus launching xclock in the process.  Mine won't do that.
> 
> In fact, I can launch remote X apps on host B from A, but not on A
> from B.  Here's the error I get from the other box:
> 
> Xlib: connection to "host:1100" refused by server.
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Error: Can't open display: peter:11.0
> 
> I can launch console apps - even vim - remotely from B  just not X apps.

Congrats! 

I'm thinking that A's server isn't setup right or you need to
restart the sshd. Firewalls shouldn't be an issue since it's all coming
through the ssh stream.

JSR/