getting x-win32 to work with a slack ware machine

07-11-2003	#1 (permalink)
bignester Linux User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Posts: 314	getting x-win32 to work with a slack ware machine I want to use X-win32 to connect to my machine. Does anybody know how to set up a machine to except this. __________________ The computer made me do it!! Slackware and SUSE too Gig\'em WHOOOOP!! \"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain amount of tasks, At the rate I\'m going I will never die.\" (I don\'t know)

07-11-2003	#2 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	Have X-Win32 running on the Windows machine, then connect with putty to your Linux machine, using the SSH protocol and having X11 forwarding turned on. Then just launch any X program (including something like startkde or gnome-session), and they will connect to your X-Win32 server through the SSH channel.

07-14-2003	#3 (permalink)
bignester Linux User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Posts: 314	I get an error saying that it cant init the X-session. And when i try to set the DISPLAY to the IP that im at it wont let connect. __________________ The computer made me do it!! Slackware and SUSE too Gig\'em WHOOOOP!! \"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain amount of tasks, At the rate I\'m going I will never die.\" (I don\'t know)

07-14-2003	#4 (permalink)
andutt Linux Engineer Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 796	Have you enabled X11 forwarding in putty?? __________________ Regards Andutt

07-14-2003

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Dolda2000

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Quote:

Originally Posted by bignester

I get an error saying that it cant init the X-session.

When you do what?

And you shouldn't set the DISPLAY var to your IP. It much less secure, much more troublesome and much more error-prone than using SSH to forward the connections.

07-18-2003	#6 (permalink)
bignester Linux User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Posts: 314	ok here is what im doing I launch X-win32 hen i go to putty and turn on x forwarding it has its setting to localhost:0 I log into my machine and when i try to open a xterminal it gived me an error Cant open display __________________ The computer made me do it!! Slackware and SUSE too Gig\'em WHOOOOP!! \"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain amount of tasks, At the rate I\'m going I will never die.\" (I don\'t know)

07-18-2003	#7 (permalink)
bignester Linux User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Posts: 314	I fixed it I had to add my computer to the xhost list in the x-config in x-win32 But I Still have to export my display to the ip address of the box that im on. Is there another way where i could skip the export step. __________________ The computer made me do it!! Slackware and SUSE too Gig\'em WHOOOOP!! \"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain amount of tasks, At the rate I\'m going I will never die.\" (I don\'t know)

07-18-2003	#8 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	It might be that the SSH server has X11 forwarding disabled. When you have just connected, check "echo $DISPLAY", and see if it returns :10. If it doesn't return anything, then your SSH server has X11 forwarding disabled. Is the server yours or are you connecting to someone else's system?

07-19-2003	#9 (permalink)
bignester Linux User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: TEXAS Posts: 314	Its my server. __________________ The computer made me do it!! Slackware and SUSE too Gig\'em WHOOOOP!! \"God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain amount of tasks, At the rate I\'m going I will never die.\" (I don\'t know)

07-20-2003	#10 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	Did you check what "echo $DISPLAY" gives you?