X11-Forwarding for Reliant UNIX (formerly SINIX)

[Damien Miller]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Bladt Norbert wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> To all: A Happy New Year !
> 
> During the last week I did some investigations why the X11 forwarding
> on Reliant UNIX Versions 5.44 and 5.45 does not work out of the box
> with OpenSSH-2.3.0p1.
> 
> The result fo my investigation is:

>    3. All standard X-applications try to determine whether
> 	they are running locally, i.e. if the DISPLAY on
> 	computer HOSTX is HOSTX:10.0 the X-applications detect
> 	that this is the local computer and try to open the
> 	named pipe mentioned above.
> 	If I change the DISPLAY to be "IP-Address-of-HOSTX":10.0
> 	than X-forwarding works fine !

Can you try setting the "--with-ipaddr-display" option to configure?
Does this fix the problem? If so I will make it the default for Reliant
Unix.

-d

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