No X11 forwarding with network-based home directory

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No X11 forwarding with network-based home directory

Hi

When I log into my local mac via a network-based home directory, I cannot display X11 apps from a remote unix server either with Telnet or SSH.

When I log into the same mac with a local user account, I have no issues displaying X11 apps.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks

Kraiwulf

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Oct 26, 2006 9:22 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 27, 2006 10:14 AM in response to kraiwulf

When you log into your local mac via a network-based home directory, can you display X11 apps from your local mac?

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Oct 27, 2006 4:57 PM in response to Karl Zimmerman

When you log into your local mac via a network-based
home directory, can you display X11 apps from your
local mac?

Yes, I can display X11 apps. The issue only occurs when logging into remote hosts

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Answer 3

Oct 27, 2006 5:01 PM in response to kraiwulf

Are you getting any error messages? On the mac, you may need to check the Console.app.

Andy

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Answer 4

Oct 27, 2006 5:08 PM in response to Nils C. Anderson

if you log into the mac using:

ssh -X -f <hostname> xclock

or

ssh -Y -f <hostname> xclock

does it work? or do you get errors?

does prefixing your user name ot the hostname as in

<user>@<hostname>

make any difference?

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Oct 30, 2006 7:49 AM in response to Nils C. Anderson

No messages in the console.app.

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Answer 6

Oct 30, 2006 8:27 AM in response to kraiwulf

Have you tried using the '-v' option with ssh? And did it give any indication of what the problem might be? I would try '-v' first, and if nothing useful, then '-vv'

Is the server also running OpenSSH, or is it running some other variant?

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