Good Morning all,
I am attempting to get X11 forwarding on a redhat server here at work. A piece of software that our vendor uses requires X11 forwarding so that an upgrade can be performed on said software (through a GUI interface).
I have enabled X11 forwarding in putty and I'm specifying the X display location as localhost:0 . I also have the xming server running on my windows desktop.
Server side, I have the following items enabled:
X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 When I issue the xclock command, I'm expecting to see the clock appear on my windows desktop. However, when I issue the xclock command the following error is displayed Error: Can't open display:. I've scoured the internet for help but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone here have experience with x11 forwarding in redhat? I'm sure there is something that I am missing or misunderstanding, I just cant figure out what!
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Edit: Just wanted to mention that all xorg software is installed.
Edit2: The issue is resolved, but I'm not exactly sure what fixed it. When I run echo $DISPLAY the following is returned hostname.domain:10.0 where as before localhost:10.0 was being returned. I'm still trying to figure out what I did to "fix" it. I'll report back and let you guys know if I find it.
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