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hayduke
Jan 30, 2007, 12:16 AM
So I have a Mac Pro and Powerbook on the same network at work and I am unable to display windows from the remote x-server (MacPro) onto the Powerbook (or vise versa). Example...

On Powerbook from the terminal

bash
xhost +
ssh -Y me@macpro...
xclock & (my simple test that x-windows is really working or not...)

I can log in fine, but it complains that it can't "Open the display." after the "xclock &" command.

I have tried lots of combinations of SSH -Y, SSH -X, xhost-ing, export DISPLAY=:0.0 etc., but I haven't struck gold. I've always been able to get this sorted out between two machines, but never when they were both macs. Any thoughts? The network connection is fine. SSH/SCP work fine. AFP works fine.

I know what I'm doing...more or less...but the terminal genies aren't cooperating. Any help out there? Step by step is fine with me!



hayduke
Feb 23, 2007, 04:44 PM
So I'm still trying to figure this one out, but I haven't made any progress. Does anyone have any tips. I expect that I should be able to do this from any shell (bash, tcsh, etc.), but maybe that is part of the problem. My older PowerBook is set-up to use tcsh and the new MacPro uses bash. I can, of course, start either shell on either machine, but I just can't get this to work. Tips?