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Old 03-19-2009
Help with Xwindow on Linux

Hi,

On my PC which is a XP, I have installed SSH client from www.ssh.com company. Linux server is a CentOS version 5.

Before using my application, I want to test it and I am trying to get the xclock display back to my window and it's not working. Any idea.

[root@centos01 ~]# DISPLAY=10.65.104.76:0.0;export DISPLAY
[root@centos01 ~]# xclock
Error: Can't open display: 10.65.104.76:0.0

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 03-19-2009
Do you have a Xserver running on your XP PC? Maybe a firewall blocking access to said Xserver? Did you tell the Xserver to accept connections from the CentOS server?

By the way, most SSH implementations allow the forwarding of X11, setting the DISPLAY variable automagically and tunneling the data through the secure connection.
# 3  
Old 03-19-2009
Xserver running on my PC, I didn't turn any thing off. Other Xserver application seems to work fine. Only from Linux is not working. I don't have any firewall on my XP PC.
# 4  
Old 03-19-2009
Maybe a firewall on the Linux server preventing the Xclient to connect out. What's the output of iptables -Ln OUTPUT ?
# 5  
Old 03-19-2009
no firewall on the Linux server also. Any other idea?

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
 
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