X server: Cant seem to export display to my local machine?

[aldeirm2]

Hi,

I have been trying to export a display from my server to my local machine for a day but with no luck.

I SSH in to the server using "-X" and then when I enter a command such as "xeyes" i get an error saying "Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
" this is very odd as it wasn't happening before? the "Xfowarding yes" is uncommented in the sshd_config file and I did the "xhost +" on my local machine.

What could the problem be?

Update: I can export displays perfectly from other servers, so it seems to be a problem with the server not the client.

Thanks

[atreyu]

This may sound stupid, but is the local machine running an X server?

Have you tried using ssh -Y (instead -X)?

Do you get any helpful output if you include the -v flag to ssh?