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POssh X11 forwarding won't work
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copied!<p>I have been trying to get X11 port forwarding to work from my laptop. I can't figure out why it won't work.</p> <p>I get this message when I try to run xterm:</p> <pre><code>X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0 </code></pre> <p>I don't know if this is related or not, but when I login, I get this message:</p> <pre><code>/usr/bin/xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/sphillips/.Xauthority </code></pre> <p>I have wondered if the problem is that my local user on my laptop is skp and the username on this server is sphillips. I have been able to get X11 forwarding to work with my other computers that use the same skp login.</p> <p>Also, the X11 port forwarding works from a Windows machine using Xming and Putty to the same server. I have to manually configure the DISPLAY variable to the IP address and display 0.0, but it works.</p> <p>I have run an xhost + on my machine with the attempt to try to bypass any security issues. That still didn't work.</p> <p>On the server, I check the configuration:</p> <pre><code>$ sudo grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes # X11Forwarding no </code></pre> <p>And on my machine as well:</p> <pre><code>$ sudo grep X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config [sudo] password for skp: #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes # X11Forwarding no </code></pre> <p>My server is RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and my laptop is Fedora 15.</p> <p>Can anyone give me any thoughts on things to try to get SSH X11 forwarding to work from my laptop?</p>

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