Thread: Dropbear X Forwarding
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dgpretzel2 is offline dgpretzel2
2006-09-26 , 17:22
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check if your laptop firewall does not block incoming X traffic and n770 is authorized to use the xserver (xhost +)
Thank you for the tip. I know how to open a port through the firewall, but I don't know how to do the "xhost" command on my XP Pro laptop. If you have time, would you please clarify a little further?



So now you did it the other way? laptop application on n770 screen? dropbear x forwarding has nothing to do with this when you ssh from laptop to n770. Or did you ssh from n770 to your laptop (via dbclient command)?
Also I think xserver on n770 is not built (or started?) with TCP/IP support so you can't display anything remote on n770 screen. I'm not 100% sure about this, please correct me if I am wrong
Perhaps my initial question was confused or posed poorly. I have no desire to forward anything to my N770. I want to access the N770 from a remote machine. I want to run an X Server on my XP Pro laptop and see X apps, which are running on the N770, displayed on the XP Pro laptop.



Looks like I would need 'xauth' on n770 for this to work.
Do you think this is just an oversight in the N770 port of dropbear? Perhaps xauth is included in other ports of dropbear?? I wonder if dropbear implements X forwarding properly on other platforms.


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