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Setting up X11 forwarding on SDF
Contents
Please note that MetaARPA membership is required to run X11 applications
X11 forwarding through ssh
This should be the preferred method of running X. By tunneling
through an existing ssh connection, extra firewall ports or
port forwarding is not needed. The traffic is also protected
by ssh.
Note that this tutorial references sverige.freeshell.org
however iceland.freeshell.org is also available to MetaARPA
members and supports X forwarding.
- Install and run an X server such
as Xming.
- ssh to sverige.freeshell.org with "ssh -X
user@sverige.freeshell.org".
- Note: If you see an error just after connecting
that xauth is missing, try adding an option to the ssh command:
"ssh -o XAuthLocation=`which xauth`
-X user@sverige.freeshell.org".
- Putty
users should use sverige.freeshell.org as the Host Name and
change the Port to 443:
- Then click on the little "+" besides "SSH" on the left list, click on "X11" and tick the
"Enable X11 forwarding" box:
- Click Open, login then run xeyes and play
- Running "xhost +localhost" on the local machine may be needed.
Direct X11
The advantage of sending X11 traffic directly is performance
(screen updates) should be slightly faster because the data is
not encrypted first.
The disadvantage of sending X11 traffic directly is the data
is not encrypted first.
The X client will send the traffic directly to the local X
server, so care must be taken to open up firewalls and forward
the ports 6000/TCP - 6063/TCP as necessary.
On your side:
Open an xterm on your computer
Run 'xhost +' to enable server access
Run 'ssh -X -p443 userid@sverige.sdf.org' where 'userid' is your SDF user id
On the SDF side:
Run export DISPLAY=`echo $SSH_CLIENT|awk '{print $1}'`:0.0
Run xeyes and play
X11 On The MetaArray
The above methods no longer seem to be working, but you can still use x11 via SSH on the MetaArray. The command to do this is "ssh -Y userid@ma.sdf.org", where userid is your SDF user id.
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