I always thought that doing X11 tunnelling with ssh would be a hard thing to setup and understand but it turns out to be quite easy.<\/p>\n
\nFirst of all on the machine being connected to (remotehost) change the sshd_config file to include:
\nX11Forwarding yes
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\nNext when connecting from linux use the following syntax:
\nssh -X remotehost
\nlogin as usual.<\/p>\n
Now try a simple xterm & to see if it works. It went first time for me.<\/p>\n
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\nHow to tunnel X over ssh
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\nSo I am sure this exists somewhere else on the web, but here is my two cents for what you need to do to get automatic X tunneling.
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\nFor instructive purposes, we will use a small scenario to explain what needs to be done. There are two machines names my_local_machine<\/I> and far_away_machine<\/I>. my_local_machine<\/I> is the machine whose local X server that you want to display to and far_away_machine<\/I> is the machine that you want to run a program on and have it displayed to my_local_machine<\/I>.
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\nSteps that you need to do:
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\nX11Forwarding yes (THIS IS THE LINE THAT YOU NEED)
\nIf this is not there contact the owner\/sysadmin for the far_away_machine<\/I> and have this line added.
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\nGet a ssh agent which supports ssh tunneling. I use a nice free open source one which is an extension to Tera Term. It is called TTSSH<\/A>. So go and get Tera Term and the TTSSH extension and install them. Now turn on the X tunneling. This is done by going into the Setup->SSH Forwarding menu and make sure that the Display remote X applications in local X server is checked. Now save Setup->Save Setup your configuration, use the default name, so that the next time that you run TTSSH you don’t have to recheck that box. There is an equivalent check box for most other windows programs like FSecure, etc.
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\nSo for this to work you need to either pass a flag to ssh, notably the -X flag, or set up your systems global ssh_config file to contain:
\nForwardX11 yes
\nssh_config lives in either ‘\/etc\/’ or ‘\/etc\/ssh’ on most machines. Also this may not even be needed based on how your ssh client was compiled.
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\nA: Yes, it should, or at least if ssh works through your firewall, tunneling X through it should work because ssh does a point-to-point encryption of all of your traffic thus when using X Windows over ssh, all of your data uses the same TCP connection that is used for the data that you type. Thus a firewall cannot determine the difference of X traffic and you just typing a lot.<\/p>\n
\nA: Yes, Windows does not currently ship with a local X Windows Server. I personally use Exceed<\/A> because it is fast, but it is also relatively expensive. If you are looking for a cheaper solution, I know that Mircoimages<\/A> sells a cheaper one for windows called MI\/X for $25 with a free trial. Also, Cygwin<\/A> has a free port of XFree86 for windows but cygwin might be difficult to install (I haven’t installed Cygwin for years, but I have heard it is much easier to install now).<\/p>\n
\nA: Yes, I learned this the hard way when trying to follow my own directions and failing on a very minimal system. Once xauth is installed everything works.<\/p>\n
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