Problems with SSH and X11

From: Mariano Kamp (mariano.kamp_at_web.de)
Date: 09/06/03

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Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:30:19 +0200

    Hi,

      I have two boxes, one with X (black) and one without (rock). I want to run
    an X Application on rock, but always get the message that it is not possible
    to connect to the remote xserver.

      What I do is the following:

    mkamp@black:~$ ssh -X rock
    The authenticity of host 'rock (192.168.0.1)' can't be established.
    mkamp@rock's password:
    Linux rock 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux
    [..] abbreviated
    mkamp@rock:~$ echo $DISPLAY
    [ void - just one blank line ]

    From what I got from my googling. The DISPLAY variable should have been set,
    shouldn't it? At least I am sure I read that one shouldn't set it by hand...

    mkamp@rock:~$ xterm
    xterm Xt error: Can't open display:

    Hmmh?!

    mkamp@rock:~$ DISPLAY=black:0.0 xterm
    Xlib: connection to "black:0.0" refused by server
    Xlib: No protocol specified

    xterm Xt error: Can't open display: black:0.0
    So, my X-Server on black is refusing to talk ....

    On black kdm.log says this:
    AUDIT: Sat Sep 6 17:15:28 2003: 304 X: client 20 rejected from IP 192.168.0.1
    port 32794

    192.168.0.1 is the ip of rock.

    If I run xterm locally, but with explicit IP it works:
    mkamp@black:~$ DISPLAY=black:0.0 xterm
       
      Besides that I have another thing with SSH bugging me. Maybe these issues
    are related?
    When I try to copy something with scp from rock to black, like this:

    mkamp@rock:~$ scp foo mkamp@black:.
    mkamp@black's password:
    executing /etc/bash.bashrc
    mkamp@rock:~$

    I just get the message that /etc/bash.bashrc has been executed, which is just
    some debug message for me that this file bas been executed on rock.

      Btw. I am running unstable.

      I am also wondering why I have ssh and ssh2 on my machine. Can I remove one
    of them? How? apt-get remove ssh?

      I am a bit lost and don't understand it. Any ideas?

    Cheers,
    Mariano 

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