Re: Remote X through firewall?


Subject: Re: Remote X through firewall?
From: Graham Leggett (minfrin@sharp.fm)
Date: Mon Nov 13 2000 - 11:20:45 MST


Philip Good wrote:

> Does anyone have a suggestion on how to set the DISPLAY to get to my work
> machine through a firewall, i.e. 'wormhole.xxx.com' then to 'mylocalhost'?

Don't set the DISPLAY at all. ssh does this for you - including handling
the jump from one box to the next.

Drop the "export DISPLAY" bits and you should be fine.

Regards,
Graham

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