Hi. On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 02:48:09PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Hi list members, > > I have not used X11 over ssh for years now. But today is the day! And it does > not work.... > The remote console tells me 'Xt error: Can't open display: :0'.
What does it exactly say while logging you in? > X11Forwarding is enabled on client and server, 'xhost +' on the client, > DISPLAY is set. IPv6 is disabled on both ends with sysctl and in sshd_config. > Client runs with xfce. Every position in this list seems redundant to me, short of xfce part. You definitely do not need to run X server at the host to which ssh connnects to, X11 Forwarding works perfectly via IPv6, and you definitely do not need to set $DISPLAY by hand in the ssh connection. > What did I miss? A wild guess - installing xauth. And running sshd -Xv. Reco
