[wplug] Remote X question

Teodorski, Chris cteodorski at ppg.com
Mon Aug 18 12:03:50 EDT 2003


I am sure this isn't working because I am firing up mozilla (which does take forever) and when I go to a website, our firewall here prompts me for authentication, which it shouldn't if my traffic was heading out through the tunnel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schmertz [mailto:rschmertz at speakeasy.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:50 AM
To: Jonathan S. Billings; Teodorski, Chris
Cc: WPLUG
Subject: Re: [wplug] Remote X question

What do you observe happening when you try this?

Running X apps over SSH over the Internet has always proven unbearably 
slow for me.  My DSL connection at home has an upload speed of 128K, and 
it takes several minutes for something as simple as xterm to come up.  
Are you sure that this is not what's happening?

Jonathan S. Billings incurred the wrath of Bob on Aug 18, by saying

>How are you starting these programs?  Are you running them off the 
>remote machine?  Is the $DISPLAY set to the local system:10.0?  If 
>traffic isn't going over the SSH tunnel, you are either: 1.) not 
>running the process remotely or 2.) exporting the remote process over X 
>instead of the SSH tunnel.
>
>
>On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 10:17 America/New_York, Teodorski, Chris 
>wrote:
>
>> Please don't beat me silly if this is a stupid question.
>>
>> I am using SSH from a box here at work to connect to a box at home.  I 
>> added the -X switch so that I can operate X apps remotely.  So, my 
>> assumption was that all network traffic from those apps (if I were to 
>> run IRC or a browser) would be sent back through the tunnel to my 
>> machine at home.  However, that doesn't seem to be the behavior that I 
>> am seeing.  Was I mistaken?
>>
>>
>> Chris
>> (aka Can0Beans)
>>
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Bob Schmertz





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