tirabosco,

Thank you for the suggestion. I will try that eventually. But, I'm still interested in understanding what is happening (or not :-) ) with N770 dropbear.



fanoush,

I was looking over the thread again, and I think I see why you thought I was trying to go "the other way". Probably because of my edits to /etc/default/dropbear. I was just trying stuff, even if it didn't make any sense. But, my intent is to understand how to get N770 to do X forwarding in response to a request from ssh on a remote machine which is also running an X Server.

Opening port 6000 on my XP Pro laptop and just setting DISPLAY env var on N770 to <IP-address-of-remote-machine>:0.0 (not attempting to use SSH X Forwarding, but just unencrypted, plain vanilla setting of DISPLAY) still didn't work.

I see from your remarks that you were also unable to get X Forwarding to work, and that you tried ssh directly (as opposed to PuTTY). If I understand you correctly, you identify the missing 'xauth' as a possible cause of the problem.


DG