It deserves mentioning that you need to be on a machine running an X server. I use cygwin's X environment on Windows.<br>
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--Dennis<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bootz</b> <<a href="mailto:eric@bootz.us">eric@bootz.us</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
happy happy joy joy, thanks I hate leaving home<br><br>Darin Perusich wrote:<br>> you can do this, you just need to insure that x11 forwarding is on.<br>><br>> relevant ssh_config values...<br>> Host *<br>> ForwardX11Trusted yes
<br>> ForwardAgent yes<br>> ForwardX11 yes<br>><br>> relevant sshd_config values...<br>> X11Forwarding yes<br>> X11DisplayOffset 10<br>> #X11UseLocalhost yes<br>><br>> add these and reload sshd, kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid`
<br>><br>> once you've done this login with another ssh session and $DISPLAY should<br>> be set, check with echo $DISPLAY<br>><br>> Bootz wrote:<br>><br>>> Hi, I'm in a ssh session and want to start a rdesktop session ...I can't
<br>>> right?<br>>><br>>> ERROR: Failed to open display:<br>>><br>>> is there some way I can get even a dos command line through rdesktop<br>>> while I am in a ssh session? I don't have telnet setup on the windows
<br>>> server, so thats out.<br>>><br>>> I just need to be an administrator on the windows server and execute a<br>>> command.<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>> Eric<br>>> _______________________________________________
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